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Pilot dies after failing to escape burning aircraft that burst into flames after skidding off runway at Illinois airport A King Air 200 twin-prop two-engine plane caught fire at Chicago Rockford International Airport on Thursday The pilot was about to take off when his plane skidded off Runway One and a fire erupted Authorities said … Read more
The most terrible conflict in human history ended 75 years ago today with the surrender of Japan on August 15, 1945. In a radio address to his nation, Emperor Hirohito announced his decision to accept the Potsdam Declaration bringing World War II to a close — at an estimated cost of up to 60 million … Read more
Iran has accidentally sunk a replica US aircraft carrier which was recently blasted with missiles in a propaganda video. The modified barge – designed to look like a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier – is listing at 90 degrees in Gulf waters after after capsizing near the sensitive Strait of Hormuz, according to Forbes. Half of the … Read more
Light aircraft crashes and bursts into flames in Sussex By Rory Tingle For Mailonline Published: 12:47 BST, 4 August 2020 | Updated: 12:58 BST, 4 August 2020 A light aircraft crashed and burst into flames near woods in Sussex today. The plane came down in Herrings Lane in Heathfield shortly after 11am. Police and ambulance … Read more
US Navy mocks Iran in meme by claiming they are ‘experts’ at building ships to be ‘targets’ after they carried out a missile attack on dummy American aircraft carrier The US Navy called out Iran for being ‘experts’ at building a target ship in a social media post that showed a bogus American aircraft carrier … Read more
Aviation giant Rolls-Royce has thrown its significant expertise behind a project hoping to build the world’s fastest civil aircraft. Boom Supersonic is building a plane called Overture which, when completed, may be capable of flying at more than twice the speed of sound, with a range of 5,180 miles. It could take passengers from London to … Read more
Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard has fired a missile from a helicopter targeting a replica aircraft carrier in the strategic Strait of Hormuz. The exercises – dubbed ‘Prophet Mohammed 14th’ – were held near the Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping lane for a fifth of global oil output. State television reported the exercise on Tuesday, … Read more
Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard has fired a missile from a helicopter targeting a replica aircraft carrier in the strategic Strait of Hormuz. The exercises – dubbed ‘Prophet Mohammed 14th’ – were held near the Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping lane for a fifth of global oil output. State television reported the exercise on Tuesday, … Read more
Plane makers received orders for just 19 new jets over past three months as coronavirus virtually wiped out travel By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 BST, 26 July 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 26 July 2020 Plane makers around the world received orders for just 19 new jets over the past three … Read more
The cyclist, an elderly peasant farmer, swerved into the path of our minibus on the quiet road in rural China. He went flying. He was clearly badly injured. We shouted at the driver to stop and get the man to hospital. But our Communist Party minder ordered him to drive on. It was 1979, and … Read more