The “Squadron Bar” is finally here! Stay tuned for awesome new products coming for your man cave HERE See how this Custom Aviator Squadron Bar was built HERE. At Squadron Posters, we turn Military Bases into vintage themed Travel Posters that are: “Man Cave Worthy and Spouse Approved!” Collect all your travels and tell your story! […]
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And then there was one… Irene Triplett. 86-year-old Irene Triplett is the daughter of a Civil War veteran and is the last living recipient of a Civil War pension, which her father earned for his service. She collects $73.13 each month from her father’s military Civil War pension. Triplett’s father was “Mose Triplett”, born in […]
MV-22B Osprey, the first successful flight demonstration of a critical aircraft component built using 3-D Printed Parts Takes Flight. An MV-22B Osprey equipped with a 3-D printed titanium link and fitting inside an engine nacelle maintains a hover during a July 29 demonstration at Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Maryland. The aerospace industry is gravitating […]
And then there was ONE… Emma Morano. Emma Martina Luigia Morano (born 29 November 1899) is an Italian “Supercentenarian” who, at the age of 116 years is the world’s oldest living person and the last verified living person to have been born in the 1800’s. This makes Emma the only living person today that has stepped […]
Squadron Posters – Commercial Business Artwork! In addition to our world famous vintage style “Military Travel Posters”, Squadron Posters also offers “Commercial Business Artwork”! We specialize in Military and Aviation related Posters and Cover Art yet have the ability to create amazing Art for Authors, Editors, Film Producers and Business Professionals. Contact us at [email protected] for more […]
Franky Zapata set a new Guinness World Record title for the Farthest hoverboard flight during a spectacular attempt off the coast of Sausset-les-Pins in the south of France. This aircraft (Ok it’s really an engine minus the aircraft, with a man standing on it…) can reach a claimed maximum height of 10,000 feet, with a […]
The Man Who Escaped the Iron Curtain in a DIY Plane. The dusty desert of Lucin, Utah, isn’t for everyone. It’s lonely, windy and hot. But for Ivo Zadarsky, it’s home. The inventor, who in 1984 escaped Czechoslovakia in a homemade aircraft, lives in an airplane hangar about 25 miles from his nearest neighbor. Like […]
Our enemies should fear our military resolve… Not only because of our military might and our resolve to defend freedom anywhere, but also because we have the real life “Captain Kirk”! And of all things… He is the Captain of the most technically complex and advanced warship the world has ever seen! No, not this […]
MegaBots raises $2.4 million to create league of human-piloted, giant fighting robots There’s a new sporting league in the works and it involves enormous human-operated robots that battle each other to the “death.” MegaBots just raised $2.4 million in seed funding to get started. It has hired a prominent sports and entertainment attorney at Latham […]
Arthur Samuel Mole (January 7, 1889 – 14 August 1983) was a British-born, naturalized American commercial photographer. He became famous for a series of “living photographs” made during World War I, in which tens of thousands of soldiers, reservists and other members of the military were arranged to form massive compositions. Although if viewed from the […]
“Katie” the PBY Catalina of Diego Garcia! To those of you who have served on the tropical island of Diego Garcia, you may have seen Katie… She is one of the most photographed birds on Degio and this is her story… Diego Garcia is an atoll located south of the equator in the central Indian Ocean […]
Did ISIS save the A-10? Or more fitting, did inevitable “social media gang warfare” on an epic scale save the A-10? (CNN) ISIS seems determined to destroy much of what’s in its path as it tries to conquer more territory in Iraq, Syria and elsewhere, but it may have inadvertently saved a fleet of U.S. Air Force jets. Gen. […]