This lady is not telling the truth

I was actually on this flight on Friday evening from ORD to DCA. I have been a reader of this forum for a long time but seeing this all over the news made me sign up so I could tell you what really happened here and hopefully stop this liar in her tracks....As many on this forum suspected we were not getting the whole truth. (www.flyertalk.com) More...

50 pound slab of blue ice falls off Air Force One narrowly missing “Occupy Las Vegas” protesters

A group of several dozen “Occupy Las Vegas” protesters camping on Clark County land located under the final approach to Runway 19 at McCarran International Airport today narrowly missed being injured when a 50 lb. slab of “blue ice” reportedly landed within feet of their tents....Too easy so will pass on comment. (canadafreepress.com) More...

Woman shoots drone: “It hovered for a second and I blasted it to smithereens.”

65 year old women cleaning her shotguns after church on a Sunday morning decided she didn't like to be buzzed so practiced her skeet shooting with her .410. The paparazzi learned not to mess with grandmothers with shotguns. (arstechnica.com) More...

Amazing tale of a desperate WWII US pilot’s encounter with a German flying ace

On Dec. 20, 1943, a young American bomber pilot named Charlie Brown found himself somewhere over Germany, struggling to keep his plane aloft with just one of its four engines still working....a great read. (www.nypost.com) More...

Inside Gaddafi's Private A340

All this from a guy that posed as a simple tribesman and living in a tent. (s275.photobucket.com) More...

Revealed: US Air Force Is Planning to Build a Super A-10 Warthog

The Air Force is beginning to work on how fast, lethal, durable and capable a new “A-10”-like aircraft would need to be in order to provide U.S. military ground troops with effective close-air support for decades to come. Translation: The Air Force is admitting the F-35 won't get the job done. (nationalinterest.org) More...

'Obsolete' Warthogs head to Iraq

Good article with some poignant comments on not just the weapons system but the overall management of the types of wars we now face. (www.americanthinker.com) More...

Pilot Confesses Secret Just Moments before Takeoff. Hands Woman Envelope 21 Years in the Making

With all the airline horror stories of late, sometimes the happy ones need to be posted. Here is a video of a Southwest captain celebrating his one millionth passenger....classy. (www.liftable.com) More...

How to thwart a gunman at 29,000 feet, by the only pilot who ever did

Great story of an El Al pilot thwarting not just a hijacking in 1970 but all the bureaucratic/diplomatic complications of returning to London with a dead Muslim on board. (www.timesofisrael.com) More...

Private helicopter pilot performs jaw-dropping rescue of stranded tourist 2000m up on the mountainside

Amazing....watch the video...this guy has must have anti-freeze for blood. (www.dailymail.co.uk) More...