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The Vultee V-11 was a single engine, light bomber or attack aircraft that started life as a commercial airliner, albeit a rather small one. Though it didn’t have a particularly glorious life, it was technically a successful design, even more so as it came from something that could have been a complete loss. Continue reading
Ten years ago, on 14 October 2012, more than eight million people tuned in online to watch the Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner jump from the edge of space and set three FAI world records. Continue reading
A video showing one thousand drones coming together and forming a terrifying dragon is going viral on social media. Continue reading
This impressive video of Wrigley Field and the surrounding neighborhood takes you on a full game-day ride through Wrigleyville, capturing the hours leading up to first pitch and the Chicago Cubs taking the field. Continue reading
The Boeing B-29 Superfortress not only brought one of the world’s largest and most brutal conflicts to a shocking end by delivering the atomic bombs on top of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but it also revolutionized combat aviation technology as a whole. Continue reading
The Martin PBM Mariner was an American patrol bomber flying boat of World War II and the early Cold War era. It was designed to complement the Consolidated PBY Catalina and PB2Y Coronado in service. Continue reading
The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is an American family of single-seat, single-engine, all-weather stealth multirole combat aircraft that is intended to perform both air superiority and strike missions. Continue reading
The Brewster Buffalo cops a lot of flak as being one of the worst planes of World War 2. But it was more a victim of mismanagement, poor timing, and an obsession over equipment-creep. Continue reading