Aircraft
Blue Angels
(US Navy Flight Demonstration Team)
(US Navy Flight Demonstration Team)
« The time to worry is three months before a flight. Decide then whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying. To worry is to add another hazard. It retards reactions, makes one unfit. . . . Hamlet would have been a bad aviator. He worried too much. »
-Amelia Earhart (American Pilot 1897-1937 (Missing))
Thunderbirds
(US Airforce Flight Demonstration Team)
(US Airforce Flight Demonstration Team)
Snowbirds
(Royal Canadian Airforce Flight Demonstration Team)
(Royal Canadian Airforce Flight Demonstration Team)
Comemorative Airforce
"Tora! Tora! Tora!" reenactment
"Tora! Tora! Tora!" reenactment
Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor
B-29
(the Manhattan Project & the plane that changed history)
(the Manhattan Project & the plane that changed history)
On the morning of August 6th, 1945, three B-29 Superfortresses climbed in formation high above the Isles of Japan. Their mission, to wreak death and destruction on civilization, the likes of which humanity had never seen before, in an effort to bring to a close the most deadly war in human history.
The power contained within the bomb those men dropped that fateful day conjured the still stirring words of American Theoretical Physicist Robert Oppenheimer, recalling from the Bhagavad-Gita, "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."
At 8:15 (Tokyo Standard Time) the Enola Gay, the aircraft selected to carry and drop the first nuclear device used in warfare, released its payload over an unsuspecting city of a quarter million people, Hiroshima. 53 seconds later 70,000 souls were immediately incinerated and 69% of the city was demolished, as a fireball hotter than the sun expanded overhead.
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