Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Pilotless Spy Plane Crashes near North Korea

A pilotless South Korean spy airplane crashed near the border with North Korea but there were no reported casualties on the ground, according to a South Korean military. Click for full story http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/01/30/korea.plane.ap/index.html or visit our website http://www.warplanes.com and http://community.warplanes.com for more airplane flight news and aviation related articles.

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Turkish Warplanes Hits PKK in Northern Iraq

Istanbul, Turkey, December 16, 2007 – “Turkish warplanes and long-range missiles attacked Kurdish rebel positions in the mountains of northern Iraq near the Turkish border early Sunday”, according to Turkish military officials. Click here for full story http://community.warplanes.com/2007/12/17/turkish-warplanes-hits-pkk-in-northern-iraq/ or visit our homepage http://www.warplanes.com/

Panama Crash Kills 3; 1 Survives

Panama City, Panama (AP), December 25, 2007 – The bodies of a California businessman, his teenage daughter and the Panamanian pilot of a plane that crashed over the weekend were found Tuesday in Panama’s mountains, officials said. A 12-year-old American girl survived. Click here for full story http://community.warplanes.com/2008/01/02/panama-crash-kills-3-1-survives/ or visit our homepage http://www.warplanes.com

War in Iraq; a Thought to Ponder

It was nearly two years after the Hussein regime was toppled and major combat operations ended but still, U.S. and coalition troops are still fighting an Iraqi insurgency. As of January 7, 2008, there have been 4,210 coalition deaths in the war in Iraq. It was on May 1, 2003 that President George Bush addressed the nation not from the White House but from the dramatic setting of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln: click here to view full blog article http://community.warplanes.com/2008/01/07/war-in-iraq-a-thought-to-ponder/ or visit our homepage http://www.warplanes.com

A Not So Mysterious Flight in Indiana

Cessna 180 family was popularly known for its bushflying (a term for air operations carried out in remote regions of the world) and its reliable surveillance capability. Way back February 19, 2003 in Bloomington, Indiana, a white, single-engine Cessna 182 was spotted by foreign students of Indiana University, making passes overhead about noon, in the late evening and after midnight. Click here for full story http://community.warplanes.com/2008/01/14/a-not-so-mysterious-flight-in-indiana/ or visit our homepage http://www.warplanes.com

Blue Angel Crash

Pensacola, Fla. – A Navy Blue Angels pilot was killed in a plane crash on April after his F/A 18 Hornet went down near a Marine Corps station in Beaufort, S.C. Click here for full story http://community.warplanes.com/2008/01/15/blue-angel-crash/ or visit our homepage http://www.warplanes.com

Shipwreck Irony

Perhaps the most notable of all the shipwreck stories would be the Titanic tragedy. The root cause of the wreck was still a debatable issue; was it just purely caused by accident or was caused by recklessness? click here to view full blog article http://community.warplanes.com/2008/01/21/shipwreck-irony/ or visit our homepage http://www.warplanes.com

Monday, January 28, 2008

A Small yet Incredible UAV

A small unmanned aerial vehicle is gaining immense popularity to the US army Special Forces entering service in the late 2003. It is a compact, lightweight, hand-launched Small UAV(SUAV) that can be prepared and launched in minutes for conducting aerial Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) missions during infantry combat operations, including urban warfare operations/MOUT...click here for more http://community.warplanes.com/2008/01/28/a-small-yet-incredible-uav/ or visit our homepage http://www.warplanes.com

Friday, January 25, 2008

30% Discount on F4U Corsair, P-51D Mustang, Airborne Laser, Super G Constellation and Vietnam Huey

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F4U Corsair which served with the US Navy, U.S. Marines, Fleet Air Arm and the Royal New Zealand Air Force, French Aeronavale and other postwar services, had quickly became the most capable carrier-based fighter-bomber of World War II. It was flown by Ike Kepford and the famous “Number 29” is depicted on the fuselage.

P-51D Mustang, the most widely produced variant of the Mustang and and had been in service with more than 30 air forces after World War. It was also highly rated compared to other primary postwar fighter of Italy.

YAL-1A Airborne Laser (ABL), a primary destroyer of tactical ballistic missiles (TBMs) and was certifedfor airworthiness.

The Lockheed Super G Constellation TWA which was the most successful variant of Constellation was employed by the United States Army Air Forces/Air Force and Navy and other air forces worldwide.

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