Some of the best pilots in the US Navy are assigned to fly Super Hornets from the USS George Washington. But just because you’re the best at what you do, doesn’t mean it’s all seriousness, hard work, and downright tedium. Most of the time it looks like it’s nothing but pure, unadulterated, capital-A Awesome.
If you send one of your flying robots to kill goats in Hungary, at least send an interesting one. Any of these ten will do.
     |
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is missing. That much we know. Unfortunately, what we don’t know includes where in the world it might be, let alone what happened to it. But the US Navy is in the Indian Ocean right now, trying to help find it. This is what they’re doing.
| |
A small plane headed for a landing at LaGuardia Airport instead made a landing on the Major Deegan Expressway in the Bronx this afternoon. Though three people were inside, only one had a minor injury. Not bad.
| |
Using telescopes and a photography technique used to capture the flow around moving objects, scientists at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center managed to capture some incredible images that show exactly what a jet does to the air when it goes supersonic.
| |
Japan just unleashed one of its largest warships ever. Dubbed Izumo, it’s a flat top destroyer that Japan says isn’t an aircraft carrier. But look at it. One of its main duties is to "carry aircraft." You sly devils you, Japan.
| |
Information is still coming in about Asiana Flight 214
| |
A Boeing 777 is on fire at San Francisco International Airport. The emergency slides have deployed, though it is not immediately clear what caused the crash and conflagration, nor if there are any injuries.
| |
People in Egypt, in case you haven’t heard, aren’t too happy with the state of things under President Mohamed Morsi. Cairo has been beset with protests and riots
| |
As the generation that fought World War II passes on, it can be difficult for younger people to remember that it was a war fought not by the elderly in black and white, but by millions of Americans in vivid color. These gorgeous images, via Shorpy, remind us just how vivid that war was.
| |
This is site is run by Sascha Endlicher, M.A., during ungodly late night hours. Wanna know more about him? Connect via Social Media by jumping to about.me/sascha.endlicher.
