Author: Crew Daily
Today for our readers we have decided to introduce to you the military aircraft that is regarded as “The Fastest plane on Earth”. With this claim, only many of you might have realized that it is the famed “SR-71 Blackbird”. For our readers today we have decided to introduce to you some of the most fascinating facts about the Blackbird. So have fun reading this joy ride of information down below. Birth of the Blackbird:- SR-71 Blackbird was originally designed and developed by the Lockheed Martin back in the ’60s. The first official flight taken off by this aircraft was…
On 26th November 2018, the InSight Lander from NASA successfully landed on the Red Planet, Mars after completing its seven months long journey from earth to Mars which was almost 300 million miles. The name InSight is the abbreviation for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport. Tom Hoffman at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory who is also the InSight project manager said to media, “we hit the Martian atmosphere at 124300 mph and the whole time for this sequence which InSight Lander took for touchdown on the surface of Mars was about 6 and a half minutes. During…
In May 2018, the UK’s Channel 5 during the filming of the Royal Navy captured an interesting video of Royal Navy warship HMS Duncan being buzzed by 17 Russian fighter jets in the Black Sea near the coast of Crimea. The video presents several of the Russian Navy’s fighter jets like Su-30SM Flanker derivative and Su-24 Fencer jets passing by the area of the HMS Duncan. These jets which were mix of fighter jets of the Russian Navy were show coming close to the HMS Duncan. The crew members of the vessel were worried that if these jets came any…
US Air Force has recently released the limited information about the new F-35A Demonstration Team for the upcoming 2019 Airshow season. The news was posted officially on the USAF’s Air Combat Command Aerial Events page. In addition to this news, this page also holds the information about the various other Air Combat Command flight demonstration teams which includes the following. F-22 Raptor Demo Team the A-10C Thunderbolt II Demo Team the F-16 “Viper” Demo Team the Heritage Flight Teams Air Force has yet to reveal any specific about the demonstration of the F-35A Demo Team but they have pointed it…
There is one certain plane in the US Army’s possession that it is so unique that it can only be found in one place. The uniqueness of this plane is evident from the fact that the pilots who fly this plane are not allowed to touch it until they are authorized for deployment to a special place. The name of this aircraft is E-11A or also most commonly known as Battlefield Airborne Communications Node or BACN. These aircraft were originally the ultra long range Business Jets that have been modified by the US Air Force to accommodate the BACN’s payload.…
The Aeronautica Militare (Italian Air Force) has completed its tour of the Middle East with the following displays. The T-346A Master and Eurofighter F-2000A of the 311° Gruppo (Squadron) of the Reparto Sperimentale Volo (RSV – Test Wing) the grand finale with the 10x MB.339A/PAN of the Frecce Tricolori This tour was sponsored by the Leonardo Company which helped to bring these Italian jets to Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait. The reason for this tour was to promote the aerospace capabilities of the Italian Aerospace across the region of Persian Gulf. This is the first time when a T-346 took part…
On June 5th, 2019 to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the D-Day; a big flyover will be held over the skies of Normandy, France. For this flyover tribute, more than 30 of the Douglas C-47 Skytrain and Dakota transport aircraft will be retracing their flights from Great Britain and flying over the original D-Day Drop Zones in Normandy, France. Furthermore, paratroopers will be released from these aircraft wearing that period’s uniform while operating the World War II style parachutes. This airborne armada with its flight and para-trooping action is going to be a high salute for the Greatest Generation, The…
Back on February 1st, 2013 Iran unveiled its stealth fighter jet’s prototype which was named as “Qaher 313”. The prototype for this stealth aircraft as resented to the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. This prototype was also put on a public display on the Ten-Day Dawn ceremonies held in Iran to celebrate the 1979’s victory of the Islamic Revolution. The Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi also made a statement about this aircraft that, “this aircraft is going to be very different from the other fighter jets that Iran has ever made”. The pictures of this aircraft prototype were released…
On 22nd November 2018, an aircraft of the Peruvian Airlines; Boeing 737-500 was operating its flight from Lima Airport, Peru to La Paz, Colombia via Cusco, Peru and was headed towards La Paz Airport in Bolivia on the flight number P9-219, experienced a bad landing. The plane on its landing collapsed on the runway due to the main gear collapsing. Fortunately for the 120 passengers and 5 crewmen onboard the aircraft, nobody was injured. An investigation has been launched to determine the cause for this main gear collapsing. The airline is going to take care of all its passengers. The…
35 F-35A from the 388th and 419th Fighter Wing performed an “Elephant Walk” at the Hill Airforce Base back on November 19th, 2018. These Elephant Walk exercises are consistent of a certain number of aircraft that taxi alongside side each other in close formation or a sequence right before they takeoff which is also dependent upon the nature of training exercise. If they are not to take-off; the aircraft taxi back to their apron. However, the 19th November ‘Elephant Walk’ after its close formation taxi staged at the Hill Air Force Base in Utah eventually took off. For our readers,…