This mysterious UAV dubbed “The Beast of Kandahar” has surfaced in many photos in recent years. It first appeared in the skies of Kandahar, Afghanistan in 2009 and the US Air Force confirmed that they did indeed operate a stealth drone called the Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel and that the drone is the product of Lockheed’s Skunk Works, which is also responsible for the U-2, the SR-71 Blackbird, the F-117 Nighthawk, the F-22 Raptor, and the F-35 Lightning II. However, … >> Read More

Originally called the DC-9-80 and DC-9 Super 80, the MD-80 is an extremely popular mid-size, medium-range airliner with two rear fuselage-mounted Pratt & Whitney JT8D-200 series turbofan engines, small but highly efficient wings, and a very distinctive T-tail. The MD-80 series consists of the MD-81, MD-82, MD-83, MD-87, and MD-88, and first took to the skies for flight-testing on October 19th 1979 (certification to the aircraft was granted by the FAA in 1980). Thanks to its ancestry, the MD-80 currently … >> Read More