Fast and the Furious: Pacific Drift

In the last post, Ice gave you a size comparison of an aircraft carrier to a B-52 Stratofortress. Pretty big, right?

Now, imagine this: a high speed bank.

Typically, these awe-inspiring turns are performed as "rudder checks" during post-refit sea trials/shakedown cruises. Imagine a mass, longer than the Empire State building's height, doing a bank like that, at sea, at such an angle. The above pictures are of the USS Nimitz and the USS Harry S. Truman conducting those maneuvers. 

Awesome, isn't it?

Mav out.

MAA

Every so often, you stumble upon some really awesome stuff on the internet. I found Military Aviation Archives through a friend, earlier this month.

MAA is built to share the vast (and by vast, I mean... HUUUUUUUUUUUGE) collection of photographs taken by it's founders. This stuff is invaluable to aviation/military aviation enthusiasts and researchers from all over. 

So, from now on, Zero Dark Thirty will be featuring aviation photographs from MAA (with their permission, of course!), and we'll be introducing you to some of the finest, most revered aircraft to ever grace the skies, in the process.

I hope you guys enjoy their work as much as I do! Go check them out on their Facebook page, or their website (both links are listed below).

Check these out:

FACEBOOK PAGE

Military Aviation Archives 

Iceman out.