Workers at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center in California load two Northrop T-38 Talon’s into NASA’s Super Guppy Transport for a flight to El Paso. While it seems like it would be easier to simply fly the two Talons from the California desert to El Paso, the trainers haven’t been flown in years and are no longer…

Meet the Arado Ar-196, standard shipboard plane of the Kriegsmarine in WW2. As we can see, it was dispatched from a remarkably short catapult. Later on in the war it was necessarily land based due to absence of ships.

Bonus cutaway Corsair because FP is talking about it

On October 28, 2016, American Airlines flight 383, a Boeing 767-323 (N345AN) was departing Chicago’s O’Hare Airport for Miami when it suffered an uncontained failure of the number two General Electric CF6 engine. The stage 2 compressor disk broke in half while at takeoff power, and one piece of the disk traveled…

I have to spent my entire day off just sitting and waiting and knowing that I get to pick up my brand new Hyundai i30 N tomorrow morning. So I figured I would bore some of you with pictures from the ‘office’. Fair warning, bunch of pictures, possibly heavy on data should you have a limited plan.

Boarding at tiny regional airports never gets old. Just got on this CRJ700 to hop from SAF to DFW.

great parking job.

Welcome to This Date in Aviation History, getting of you caught up on milestones, important historical events and people in aviation from May 30 through June 1.

Come back at 12:35 ET to read about the final flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavour, which took place on this date back in 2011. Also, this is a really cool photo.

Almost there Google, keep working at it!

J and I just flew from Milan to Athens on Aegean Airlines and we had a pleasant surprise. In flight meal in economy baby! We were quite thrown off as it is just a 2 1/2 hour flight. The pasta wasn’t half bad either!

But the real question is, who wants to sit in a plane for 19 hours only to end up in Newark?

And their Twin Mustangs.