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In a secret base buried deep within the Nevada desert, a pilot climbs into a jet unlike anything ever built on American soil. The controls are alien, scattered with no apparent logic, covered in strange, foreign letters. No ordinary pilot could ever decipher the maze of dials and switches. Yet
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It was every Allied bomber pilot’s worst nightmare. Flying his Douglas A-26 Invader over northern France, Major Myron L. Durkee unexpectedly finds himself picked out as prey for Hitler’s terrifying new weapon: the Messerschmitt Me-262, a jet-powered assassin seemingly sent from the future. The Invader - a muscular
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The Heinkel He 178 was an experimental aircraft designed and produced by the German aircraft manufacturer Heinkel. It was the world's first aircraft to fly using the thrust from a turbojet engine. The He 178 was developed to test the jet propulsion concept devised by the German engineer
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On June 20, 1965, two MiG-17s circled the smoking wreckage of an F-4 Phantom deep in North Vietnam, the first of its kind shot down in the war. The MiG pilots expected what usually came next: more Phantoms screaming in at twice the speed of sound. Then they heard a
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The Red Bull Skydive Team has been pushing the boundaries of conventional freefall since first dropping from the sky in style in 2014. [embed]https://vimeo.com/1138883351?fl=pl&fe=sh[/embed] Launching themselves through the clouds from anywhere between 1,000 to 4,000m above the ground
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The XF-90 was built like no fighter before… or since. At a time when no one knew what supersonic flight would do to metal, Skunk Works chose brute force over guesswork. They forged the strongest airframe on Earth: 75S aluminum over a steel spine, the fuselage braced until it was
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Meet the Hawker Sea Fury, the Royal Navy’s last and fastest piston fighter, a “super prop” born at the edge of the jet age. In this episode we dive into its Sopwith/Hawker roots, the Bristol Centaurus sleeve-valve engine, combat over Korea and the Bay of the Pigs, and
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September 19th, 1942. Oberleutnant Wilhelm Johnen pushes his Messerschmitt Bf 109G to its absolute limit, engine screaming at maximum power, trying desperately to catch the British bomber ahead. But the wooden aircraft just pulls away, effortlessly maintaining a speed that shouldn't be possible. This is the moment German
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Hoarder Sam meticulously designs and 3D-prints a miniature FPV drone frame, modifying a BetaFPV Air65. This build requires precise adjustments, including hand-drilling for optimal component fit. Witness the assembly process, from initial CAD design to test flights with various batteries. Source: YouTube
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When the Lockheed S-3 Viking first fired up its engines on carrier decks in the mid-1970s, something seemed very wrong. Instead of the thunderous roar expected from a military jet, this submarine hunter produced a sound more familiar from suburban living rooms - the distinctive whine of a vacuum cleaner.
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November 10, 1943, Rechlin test facility. Hauptmann Hans-Werner Lerche climbed into the cockpit of a captured P-47 Thunderbolt nicknamed "Beetle." Intelligence briefings had told him American fighters were crude, mass-produced machines built by a nation better at making refrigerators than aircraft. After ninety minutes of flying, Lerche would
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Flak bloomed around him. Tracers lanced past like electric needles. Captain Robin Olds didn’t flinch; he was already lining up his next target. Scat II, his silver P-38 Lightning, screamed across the sky, twin engines snarling as it tore through Messerschmitts. Then, he saw movement below. A lone Mustang,