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WATCH: This Is What It Was Like to Fly the Whale From a Carrier Deck

Experience the Life of an EA-3B Skywarrior Crew During a Mid-1980s WestPac Deployment Bruce “Shooter” Gamble was a Navigator with Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron ONE (VQ-1) World Watchers between 1982…

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WATCH: Former F-14 Tomcat RIO Analyzes TOP GUN

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Unsolved Mysteries: The Strange Case of the Wayward Warthog

USAF Captain Craig Button Broke Formation and Flew Off Alone- into Oblivion. But Why? Craig David Button was born on 24 November 1964. Like a lot of want-to-be fighter pilots,…

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The Numbers Tell Us That Passengers Are Coming Back!

Good News for the Airlines and Travelers Alike Many of us AvGeeks are tracking the progress of the passenger counts supplied by the Transportation Security Administration during the COVID pandemic. …

AeroAngel: The All-Volunteer Air Force Helping to Save Children’s Lives

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That Time An Airline Abandoned Its Namesake Airport For An Entirely New Hub

Airlines exist to make money. They establish new markets to serve business opportunities. In some cases, they add new service to cripple other competitors on the same route (case in…

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WATCH: You Might Never See These Two Demo Team Warthogs Fly Together Again

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United Grounds 777 Subfleet After Engine Failure

United Airlines grounded 24 Boeing 777-200 aircraft today in response to an FAA emergency airworthiness directive that requires immediate inspection of all PW4000 engines. The inspection mandate is in response…

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United 777 Pilots Calmly Landed Jet After Catastrophic Engine Failure

United Airlines flight 328 took off this afternoon for Denver bound for Honolulu with 231 passengers and crew onboard. Shortly after takeoff, the right #2 engine failed. It showered debris…

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Ancient Airlines

Ancient Airlines: The Top Banana In The West

Throughout aviation history, two primary purposes are well established established: travel and warfighting. Sometimes, there has been a significant crossover between the two. In the case of air travel, dozens…

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What’s Up With a Winglet

Sure, for us AvGeeks, these funny things on the wingtips make something cool (a wing) look more cool. For what purpose – and how long have these been around? Surprisingly,…

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Eastern Airlines Shut Down 30 Years Ago Today

It was the airline that was destroyed by infighting and a soft economy. The airline headed was by World War I ace Eddie Rickenbacker. For a time, Eastern Airlines was…