British Airways Flight 5390 was a flight from Birmingham Airport in England for Málaga Airport in Spain. On Jun. 10, 1990, the BAC One-Eleven 528FL suffered explosive decompression resulting in no loss of life. With the aircraft flying over Didcot, Oxfordshire, an improperly installed windscreen panel separated from its frame, causing the plane’s captain to be blown partially out of the...
Second successful test of AGM-183A ARRW Hypersonic Weapon, Booster Tests Complete – The Aviation Geek Club
The US Air Force (USAF) conducted another successful hypersonic test off the Southern California coast on Jul. 12, 2022. The Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) Booster Test Flight-3 was the 12th flight for the program and third release demonstration. The AGM-183A weapon system reached hypersonic speeds and primary and secondary objectives were met. “This was another important...
Photos show mock B61-12 nuclear bomb being loaded on B-2A Spirit stealth bomber before capstone test – The Aviation Geek Club
A B-2A Spirit stealth bomber released a B61-12 Joint Test Assembly utilizing a new capability known as Radar Aided Targeting System during a capstone test at the Tonopah Test Range, on Jun. 14, 2022. Tested only on the B-2, RATS improves weapon guidance accuracy in a Global Positioning System-degraded environment. “We flew multiple sorties testing the new RATS capability over the last nine months...
SR-71 Pilot explains how he Survived to his Blackbird Disintegration at a Speed of Mach 3.2 – The Aviation Geek Club
During the Cold War, there was a need for a new reconnaissance aircraft that could evade enemy radar, and the customer needed it fast. At Lockheed Martin’s advanced development group, the Skunk Works, work had already begun on an innovative aircraft to improve intelligence-gathering, one that would fly faster than any aircraft before or since, at greater altitude, and with a minimal radar cross...
Dependence on Russian Aircraft Engines may soon Affect 40 Percent of People’s Liberation Army Air Force F… – The Aviation Geek Club
Experts at the China Aerospace Studies Institute conference said on May 17, 2022 that China’s dependence on Russian fighter aircraft engines may soon affect the People’s Liberation Army Air Force fleet if Russia can’t service or provide engines or parts for up to 40 percent of the Chinese fighters. According to Air Force Magazine, experts explained during a panel discussion on military...
Former Boeing 727 Pilot tells the Story of when a Passenger confused a Thunderstorm Cloud for a Nuclear Mus… – The Aviation Geek Club
‘While I was flying a [Boeing] 727 over the middle of North Carolina, a passenger saw a huge thunderstorm cloud—one of the biggest I’ve ever seen and started a ruckus in the back by telling everyone it was a nuclear bomb mushroom cloud,’ Ron Wagner, former USAF pilot in the Presidential Wing at Andrews AFB and former airline pilot, recalls on Quora. ‘It was a really big s****r! It towered up to...
US Navy F/A-18 pilot remembers the mid-air misses he had with two USAF F-16s and a B-1 during Operation Ira… – The Aviation Geek Club
The F/A-18 Hornet, in its various guises, was the ‘universal soldier’ of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), with some 250 seeing combat during the campaign from land bases and the six supercarriers of the US Navy that were committed to the war from the Northern Arabian Gulf (NAG) and eastern Mediterranean. The F/A-18 delivered hundreds of thousands of pounds of ordnance on a whole host of...
The story of the Israeli F-4 crew that shot down an Egyptian Mi-8 helicopter by means of its Kurnass afterb… – The Aviation Geek Club
The Arab initial objective during the Yom Kippur War was to push back Israel Defense Force (IDF) regular forces some 20 kilometers (12 miles) to east of the Suez Canal and west of the IDF fortifications line at the Golan heights. This modest objective was dictated by the range of protective SAM batteries and by the concept of infantry divisions for breaching and crossing with armor divisions for...
Defiant Executes US Army Air Assault Mission Profile, Demonstrates Unsurpassed Speed, Maneuverability and A… – The Aviation Geek Club
The Lockheed Martin Sikorsky-Boeing SB>1 Defiant successfully completed Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) mission profile test flights, including confined area landings and low-level flight operations. These flights validate Defiant’s relevancy to the Army’s mission, providing agility at the objective (also known as the “X”), and increased survivability, all while reducing pilot workload...
First fleet representative Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band pods delivered to the US Navy – The Aviation Geek Club
The US Navy’s first AN/ALQ-249 Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band (NGJ-MB) production representative pods arrived at the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) Patuxent River, Maryland, on Jul. 7, 2022. According to a NAVAIR news release, the two fleet representative test articles, which make up an NGJ-MB shipset, were delivered to the Airborne Electronic Attack Systems Program Office...
