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An interesting aircraft for an unbelievable story
I had almost forgotten this picture of the Boeing 747-400 A6-HRM I photographed in Paris Le Bourget airport on Oct. 2, 2010, while visiting the Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace. The aircraft is not only...
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Airspace violations – Episode 7
Tragedy on the way home(Korean Airlines B-747 vs. Soviet Sukhoi Su-15)On Sept. 1, 1983, a civilian B-747 flying with registration HL7442 as Korean Air Lines Flight 007 (KAL 007, KE 007) was shot down...
View ArticleBoeing 747 mock-up used for Special Forces counter-terrorism training in...
The ambitious al-Qaida’s affiliate in Yemen’s “underwear bomb plot” to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner recently thwarted by CIA, has proved, once again, that civilian planes are still an attractive...
View ArticleThese are the planes you would use to go in vacation if you were a Sultan:...
Unfortunately, we don’t have the images from inside such beauties, but, we can be quite sure that both planes (a Boeing 747-400 and a shorter 747SP) have luxury interiors worthy of an over-the-top...
View ArticleDocumentary unveils Air Force One’s 9-11 journey across the U.S., secret trip...
Last year, I published a series of articles about the 9-11 for the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks, that you can find here. One of them was about the Air Force One and its journey [...]
View Article[Photo Gallery] Space Shuttle Endeavour final flight over Los Angeles as seen...
The following stunning pictures were taken by NASA Dryden’s photographer Jim Ross from one of the two F-18 Hornets escorting the space shuttle Endeavour mounted atop Boeing 747 SCA (Shuttle Carrier...
View ArticlePhoto: An F-35A test aircraft flies over Space Shuttle Endeavour at Edwards...
On Sept. 21, the space shuttle Endeavour mounted atop a Boeing 747 SCA (Shuttle Carrier Aircraft), from Edwards Air Force Base to Los Angeles International Airport overflying the most iconic places in...
View ArticleVideo: NASA’s F/A18 Hornet extended view of Space Shuttle Endeavour’s flyover...
The following video was filmed by one of the two NASA Dryden’s F/A-18 Hornet jets escorting the space shuttle Endeavour mounted atop Boeing 747 SCA (Shuttle Carrier Aircraft), during its final flight...
View ArticleOne of the most shocking videos ever shows huge Boeing 747 crashing after...
This is one of those video that deserve very few words as it speaks by itself. It was recorded by a dash camera and shows the B747-400 cargo plane operated by National Air Cargo crashing [...]
View ArticleThis animation shows what may have happened aboard the Boeing 747 that...
The following video shows what may have caused the crash of a National Air Cargo Boeing 747-400 shortly after take off from Bagram Airfield, in Afghanistan, on Apr. 29. As we reported on our first [...]
View ArticleAir Force One for sale!
Unfortunately, the title does not refer to the famous highly modified Boeing 747s (designated VC-25 by the U.S. Air Force) that is used by President Obama as these planes have undergone many upgrades,...
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Boeing 747-8 selected as next Air Force One platform. And here’s how it will...
U.S. Air Force has identified the Boeing 747-8 platform for next Air Force One A “fully missionized” platform based on the 747-8, the latest and largest version of the iconic Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet, will...
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Watch St. Elmo’s Fire appear on an E-4B doomsday plane’s nose during aerial...
Static discharges on an E-4B refueling from a KC-135. The following video shows an interesting phenomenon. An E-4B Nightwatch National Airborne Command Post (NAOC) approaches a KC-135 in cloudy...
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U.S. Flight from Wuhan Evacuates Americans to Quarantine at March Air Reserve...
Precautionary Quarantine Underway for U.S. Evacuees as Chinese Military Mobilizes. In response to concern over the spread of the coronavirus, a U.S. based Boeing 747-400 owned by contract air freight...
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Last Ever Boeing 747 Rolled Out Of Assembly Line
After more than half a century, the last “Queen of the Skies” ever built is being readied for delivery. The last Boeing 747 ever built left the company’s widebody factory in Everett, Washington, in the...
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