Posts Tagged ‘US Marines’
 

 

August 6th in Aviation History: B-29 Superfortress Drops Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima

The US drops first atomic bomb on Japan, Ted Williams returns to the Red Sox from Korea, Braniff Flight 250 crashes in Nebraska, and more.
by NYCAviation Staff

 
 
2012 Ford Blue Angels Mustang

The Top 10 Best of Everything at EAA AirVenture 2011

With NYCAviation once again attending EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, WI, we decided to take a look back at the last time we were there in 2011.
by Matt Molnar
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Budget Woes to Blunt the Blues? Blue Angels May Get the Ax

The US Blue Angels jet team may be facing the ax if Congress fails to stop the nation from going over the fiscal cliff.
by Jeremy Dwyer-Lindgren
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A North American PBJ-1H Mitchell bomber of U.S. Marine Corps bomber squadron VMB-613 with its bomb bay doors open. (Photo by US Marine Corps)

US Recovers Remains of 7 Marines Missing Since World War II Plane Crash

The remains of seven US Marines who went missing when their aircraft crashed in Vanuatu in 1944 have been returned to their families.
by BNO News
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The US Navy variant of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the F-35C, conducts a test flight over the Chesapeake Bay. (Photo by US Navy)

Why the Pentagon’s New Fighter Jet Will Now Cost More Than $1 Trillion

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is slated to replace nearly all of the other tactical jets in the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps. But getting there is going to be slow and expensive, as a new government report details.
by Cora Currier, ProPublica
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