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@RealAirPower1 Specs yeah, performance/longevity…. No way.

Combat comparison of the ultimate ground pounders: the A-10 Warthog versus the Su-25 Frogfoot, the modern heirs of the legendary P-47 and Il-2. It is interesting to note that except for weapons load, the Su-25 is superior in nearly every respect. #avgeeks, your thoughts?

FALCO the weapon the keeps on giving, much more to come!

Forget the sleek digital icons of video games. Early Radar Warning Receivers (RWRs) didn’t show you the threat; they only made you listen to it. In an F-100F "Misty," radar warning came as a raw, rhythmic crackle fed straight into the pilot’s headset. The crews called it the "Rattlesnake." It was the unpolished, terrifying audio of a Soviet SA-2 Fan Song radar beginning to paint your aircraft. 1/2

@AlexHarrisqw Where was the outrage when it sat rusting in port? Such bullshit outrage

The SS United States remains one of the most recognizable symbols of American maritime history. As discussion around her future continues, many still believe preservation and alternative paths deserve consideration

New Navy Shipbuilding Plan: Trump-class Battleship will be Nuclear-powered, Carrier Design is Under Review — USNI News news.usni.org/2026/05/11/new…

From 1908-1940, Sears sold over 70,000 mail-order homes for around $938, shipped by rail for easy assembly by owners or local builders. $938 in 1910 is equivalent in purchasing power to approximately $32,604 today. What would that get you now?

Joe Walsh of the Eagles sounds like Adam Sandler doing a music skit on SNL. In other words, it’s terrible.

Happy “Black Helicopter Day”, if you’re observing it… 46 years ago today, May 11, 1980, was Henry Hill’s final day as a goodfella, and it was an absolute marathon of errands, paranoia and bad decisions.

This is indeed a waste of resources whether O&M or Museum funded...just dumb, and notably more expensive to try after the retirement... At least 7-10 F-14 Tomcats are on displayed at several museums throughout the U.S.

"Who Are You" was created after an epic night that Pete Townshend spent drinking. He collapsed at a hotel door, and when the police found him, the first thing they asked was exactly "Who are you?" It was one of the last times Keith Moon played in the studio with The Who.

"As part of an Internal R&D effort, Ursa Major used Lynx, our common, modular solid rocket motor production method, to rapidly develop and test a 7” diameter solid rocket motor propelled with Highly Loaded Grain #HLG. The team went from clean sheet to static fire in just four months, meeting all performance and test objectives. Combining Lynx’s rapid, scalable SRM development approach with HLG’s ⬆️ propellant loading enables extended range and enhanced tactical performance for systems that use 7” SRMs" ~ @ursamajortech

Scoring the first air-to-air kill of the Korean War on June 27, 1950, the F-82 Twin Mustang was the last prop fighter ordered by the USAF and still owns the record of the longest non-stop flight without refueling for a piston engine fighter.👀

@RealJamesWoods @JordanBrace8 Where are the Billy clubs? More Billy clubs!!

This is unfixable.

Frontier Airlines A321, Flight 4345, struck and killed a pedestrian on DEN Runway 17L last night during its takeoff roll. The person had just jumped the perimeter fence and ran onto the active runway. The individual was hit about two minutes later near the mid-field area, far from the terminal in the outer perimeter section. The crew aborted the takeoff near V1. A brief engine fire occurred due to ingestion, followed by smoke in the cabin. Everyone evacuated safely via slides, with 12 minor injuries reported. Officials say it was a deliberate trespass. This tragic incident raises serious security questions. The NTSB and FAA are investigating. Engine aftermath👇🏻

In honor of Bobby Cox, here’s almost 20 minutes of him getting ejected. Legend.

Appropriate.

May 15, 1963. Astronaut Gordon Cooper climbed into a capsule barely larger than a phone booth and launched into space aboard Faith 7. The mission was simple on paper: Orbit Earth 22 times. Stay in space for a full day. Come home alive. For most of the flight, everything worked perfectly. Then, on the 19th orbit, the warning lights came on. First, a faulty sensor falsely reported reentry. Then the electrical system failed. One by one, the automated controls died. Guidance system: dead. Orientation system: dead. Reentry calculations: dead. At 165 miles above Earth, Gordon Cooper suddenly had no functioning instruments to bring him home. And reentry is unforgiving. Too shallow, and the capsule skips off the atmosphere into space forever. Too steep, and friction turns it into a fireball. The difference between life and death was fractions of a degree. Mission Control could only watch. So Cooper became the computer. He drew reference marks on the capsule window with a pen. He stared at the stars he had memorized before launch and used them to orient the spacecraft by eye. He strapped a wristwatch to his arm and timed everything manually. Then he did the math in his head. No autopilot. No navigation system. No backup computer. Just a man, a watch, and the stars. At exactly the right second, Cooper fired the retrorockets manually. The capsule dropped into Earth’s atmosphere. For several minutes, communication vanished as plasma wrapped the spacecraft in fire. Nobody on Earth could contact him. Then the parachutes opened. Faith 7 splashed down just 4.4 miles from the recovery ship USS Kearsarge — the most accurate splashdown of the entire Mercury program. Later, Cooper described it simply: “I used my wristwatch for time, my eyeballs out the window for attitude.” That’s it. In one of the most dangerous moments in early spaceflight history, a human being outperformed the machines. We live in a world obsessed with automation and software. But Gordon Cooper’s flight is a reminder that when everything breaks, the final backup system is still the human mind. Calm under pressure. Thinking clearly. Making the call when nobody else can. It was true in 1963. It still is.