by David Axe | Oct 15, 2012 | Monitor
An Air Force CV-22 in training in New Mexico in 2007. Photo: Air Force In 2010, an Air Force CV-22 Osprey tiltrotor — a hybrid warplane that takes off like a helicopter and cruises like an airplane — crashed in southern Afghanistan, killing four people on...
by David Axe | Oct 4, 2012 | Monitor
Don Harvel, near his home in Georgia. Photo: Kendrick Brinson/Wired Don Harvel thought he was cruising to a well-deserved retirement after 35 years flying cargo planes for the U.S. Air Force. Then in the spring of 2010 he was tapped to investigate the fatal crash of a...