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C-130 “Franken-Herc” is disassembled at the 934th Airlift Wing

August 30, 2013 // 0 Comments

Watch as a C-130 is taken apart systematically in this 30 second video from Military.com! [read more...]

68 Years Ago Today: Chuck Yeager Breaks the Sound Barrier.

by tomdemerly in In History

By Tom Demerly for ALERT 5. When a manned aircraft approaches the speed of the sound it is thought to reach an invisible barrier. A barrier defined by physics. An impenetrable “sound barrier”. No one knows what will really happen. That is the problem. Scientists disagree; pilots think they know. Engineers have their theories. The theory is an [read more...]