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Claiming that six pilots have been killed in PT-6 aircraft crashes so far, Parliamentarian Dayasiri Jayasekara questioned why these aircraft manufactured in 1958 are still used for training purposes.
The Air Force has temporarily grounded all PT-6 training aircraft after an accident on Monday that led to the deaths of two military personnel. The aircraft will be grounded until the Board of Inquiry ...
Mogami’s speed was down to 6 knots, but it was not quite finished, as PT-491 discovered when it came under its fire. Two torpedoes from PT-491 missed the cruiser, while PT-137 was driven off by ...
The plan was an orientation flight to celebrate Offutt Air Force Base’s Airman of the Year recipient SRA Taryn Tapahonso, ...
Here's a look at some of the best fictional athletes in sports movie history, part 2. Wayne Osmond, founding member of the Osmonds, is dead at 73 See inside Kykuit, a 40-room mansion in New York ...
John F. Kennedy, with cane in the Pacific, 1943, would later downplay his PT-109 role: "It was involuntary," he quipped. "They sank my boat." Ted Robinson John F. Kennedy—elected 50 years ago ...
The fleet of 13 PT-6 aircraft would remain grounded until initial investigations are completed by the Sri Lanka Air Force board of officers with expertise in aircraft accident investigations. This ...
Mike Kellner has spent 40 years restoring a 75-foot long B-17 war bird, a piece of history, found in a junkyard in Maine, and is now ready to fly it, honoring the stories of the 50,000 U.S. airmen … ...
Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor made Cannes Film Festival sob on Wednesday night with Oliver Hermanus’ “The History of Sound,” which earned a six-minute standing ovation. While Mescal ...