F-14 Tomcat using afterburners for take off. The original Pratt & Whitney TF30 engines were replaced with GE F100's not requiring afterburners to be used on take off.
From the “too cool for school” department, comes this new Japanese roller coaster that is powered by humans. It's called the Skycycle, and it's a pedal-powered rollercoaster that allows people to “shoot for the sky” as they ri
B-17 Pilots ~Strapped into metal behemoths - men lost their youth and often their lives while dealing with mechanical death thousands of feet above the earth.