A Rare Glimpse Into a U.S. Marine's Combat Experience

Once a World War II military cargo plane, this mighty plane has a new mission: putting out raging forest fires.

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This crew must maneuver a jumbo planeas long as a football field and as high as a six-story buildingat hundreds of miles per hour into blinding sun glare in order to refuel.

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If youre claustrophobic, this is not the job for you. Learn why it pays to be the little guy when lining the fuel cells of this plane.

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Flying just inches apart and battling extreme G-forces, the Navys prestigious Blue Angels wow crowds with their death-defying maneuvers.

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How do you take a vintage World War II Spitfire and pack it into a cargo container for a Transatlantic journey? The answer is very carefully—the slightest damage to its outer body could be catastrophic.

Packing a vintage World War II airplane is an impossibly delicate task (4:06)

Investigators are baffled: The on-board terrain warning system on the Sukhoi Superjet 100 which went down on May 9, 2012, sounded 40 seconds before the crash—so why did the pilots ignore it?

Why was a safety alarm ignored by Sukhoi Superjet 100 pilots? (2:46)

If a 'wingtip vortex'—a concentrated air turbulence created by another airplane—was responsible for bringing down Delta Airlines Flight 1141 on August 31, 1988, investigators would expect to find another airplane in its vicinity—but was there?

Did wingtip vortices bring this airplane down? (2:02)

Without access to the crash sites of MH17, which went down on July 17, 2014, investigators can't definitively say why the crash happened. So they begin to consider all kinds of theories—including a meteor strike.

Was Flight MH17 hit by a meteor? (3:11)

The investigation into the crash of a Sukhoi Superjet 100 on May 9, 2012 centered around why the airplane had been allowed to fly at such a low altitude—something only military aircraft are cleared to do.

Why was this aircraft allowed to fly at such a low altitude? (2:20)