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‘On My Way to Blow Up the Plane’: Teen Faces Huge Fine After Joke Leads to Fighter Jets Scrambling
In the summer of 2022, 18-year-old Aditya Verma was boarding a flight to Spain at London’s Gatwick Airport when he sent a message to his friend on Snapchat: “On my way to blow up the plane (I’m a member of the Taliban).” As you might expect, the message was a joke. Unfortunately, the kid happened…
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Spectacular Photo Of An F-18 Against A Huge Wall Of Fire
Image Cache: This spectacular photo by US Marine Corps by Cpl. Owen Kimbrel of flames exploding behind a Blue Angels’ F/A-18 Hornet at the 2014 Miramar Air Show in California is blowing my mind.
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Wings Over Illawara, Australia: Crosswind Take-Offs Suck Even If You’re Riding A Fighter Jet
Video: Landing or taking off in heavy crosswinds really sucks no matter which plane you’re in. It could be the biggest airliner in the world, a prop plane, or these F-18s taking off in 30-knot to 40-knot crosswinds. It looks fun from the outside, but it really sucks for the pilot and everyone else inside.
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Holy Moly, Check Out This Awesome F-18 Cockpit Video
I love the GoPros or whatever cameras the people at the Carrier Strike Group 8 used to make this awesome video. It shows the complete experience of flying a VFA-103 Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornet on the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D Eisenhower.