Price Is Right’s Drew Carey wowed by rare occurrence on the wheel

The Price Is Right’s Drew Carey was shocked by a rare occurrence on the Showcase wheel that resulted in a couple of massive wins The Price Is Right‘s host, Drew Carey, was shocked by a rare occurrence on the Showcase wheel that resulted in massive wins for a couple of contestants. During the June 24 episode of the hit CBS game show, player […]

WWII B-17 Ball Turrets and the Gunners That Manned Them

WWII B-17 Ball Turrets and the Gunners That Manned Them I’m currently in the middle of researching a new time-slip novel that will, in part, involve WWII. That means I’m immersing myself in the 1940s by watching movies and reading non-fiction as well as fiction about the war. And anytime I think about WWII, I […]

A Japanese torpedo aircraft falls from the sky after taking a direct hit from by the USS Yorktown on October 25, 1944. The attack came during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, one of the largest naval battles in history.

Flames in the Pacific: The Last Flight of a Japanese Torpedo Bomber at Leyte Gulf In the vast blue expanse of the Pacific, October 25, 1944, would become a day of fire and legend. The U.S. Navy’s aircraft carrier USS Yorktown plowed through rolling swells, decks thrumming with activity as the carrier group faced wave […]

Shenyang FC-31 Gyrfalcon 🇨🇳🇨🇳The Shenyang FC-31 Gyrfalcon, also known as the J-31 or J-35, is a Chinese prototype mid-sized twinjet 5th-generation fighter aircraft developed b 🚀💨

The Shenyang FC-31 Gyrfalcon: China’s Stealthy Challenger Takes Flight 🇨🇳🚀 In the high-tech world of 21st-century fighter jets, only a handful of nations have ever developed true fifth-generation stealth aircraft—jets designed to be “invisible” to radar, supersonic, highly maneuverable, and packed with advanced avionics. China’s Shenyang FC-31 Gyrfalcon, known variously as the J-31 or J-35, […]

Boeing X-32 jet fighter with incredible speed

Boeing X-32: The Bold Jet That Almost Redefined America’s Fighters In the annals of military aviation, there is a select club of “what might have been” aircraft—prototypes and contenders that soared briefly, only to be eclipsed in the final stretch. Among these, few are as visually striking or as surrounded by myth as the Boeing […]

Drew Carey Stunned As ‘Price Is Right’ Contestant Melts Down After Rare Win

It doesn’t happen often, but every once in a blue moon does a Price Is Right contestant win in such a big way, it stuns even host Drew Carey. That’s what happened during a recent show when Claire Tongbalad was added to the (fake) Price Is Right Hall of Fame when she managed to win not one but two cars. What made her win […]

The Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger I heavy tank

When comparing the small number of Panzerkampfwagen VI Ausf.E (Sd Kfz 181) Tiger Tanks produced (only 1346), to the more than 120,000 T-34s and Shermans combined, one can appreciate the psychological impact of this model, at least from the Allied tank crew perspective. In its concept laid the very core of the German conception of a heavy tank. Something […]

How the B-17 Flying Fortress was Scrapping After World War II?

B-17s served in every World War II combat zone. The aircraft is best known for daylight strategic bombing of German industrial targets. B-17 Flying Fortresses parked and awaiting the furnaces after World War II The B-17 flew mostly out of England, equipping 26 of the 40 bombardment groups of the 8th Air Force. After the […]