A 6-years-old China Southern Boeing 787-9 suffered a tail strike during landing in its main base in Guangzhou. No injuries ...

The U.S. Air Force and Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) recently conducted a joint "elephant walk" at Misawa Air Base, ...

The U.S. Navy is home to one of the largest and most formidable fleets of aircraft in the world, by a long shot. Its history ...

In November 2023, FEAM was involved in the recovery of an Airbus A320 that veered off the edge of the taxiway at ...

Please verify your email address. Tail strikes can cause significant damage to aircraft and, sometimes, can even be catastrophic. According to Boeing, there are two major ways to prevent tail strikes.

Airman 1st Class Albert Moore, the last U.S. airman to down an enemy fighter as a B-52 tail gunner, was honored this month at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado. Moore, just 18 during the 1972 ...

As a fifth-generation strike fighter aircraft, the Lightning II can play ... and a four-bladed tail rotor, which allow for top speeds over 180 mph. Typically, this helicopter carries a crew ...

This data gives the pilot real-time weather radar, lightning strike displays and other ... are referred to as rotating wing aircraft. There are also two tail rotor blades that keeps Osage SkyNews6 ...

For the ceremony, an F-35B, ZM151, was applied the modex 809 and a tail art with the ... will now take part in Exercise Strike Warrior and, once completed, the aircraft and Carrier Strike Group ...

A tailstrike occurs when the tail of an aircraft touches the ground while landing or during a go-around. This can cause significant damage to the aircraft's structure and, in extreme cases, lead to ...

Sometimes images of the drone can be seen prior to the strike ... that are at angles to the aircraft rather than sticking out horizontally. This kind of tail section is similar to the US Reaper ...