Carrier Pictures of a New Navy Fighter Plane-Fiction! Summary of eRumor: Pictures of a stealth looking jet on the deck of an aircraft carrier. The caption says it’s a new plane known as the F/A-37. It also shows the pilot, an attractive female whose name is written on the side of the cockpit. …
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NASA Spent $12 Million For a Space Pen While the Russians Just Use Pencils–Fiction! Summary of eRumor: The message says that the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration spent ten years and $12 million developing a pen that writes in zero gravity for use by astronauts. The pen will write upside down, underwater, …
NASA Space Pen: a ten-year, $12 million price tab-Fiction! Read More »
The Navy Crewman Who Survived a Partial Ejection From his Navy Jet-Truth! Summary of eRumor: The remarkable story of bombardier/navigator Lt. Keith Gallagher whose ejection seat accidentally deployed during flight. He was partially ejected, pushed through the canopy, and became stuck with the upper half of his body exposed to the rushing air outside of …
American Helicopter Painted Like a Bird of Prey Operating in Afghanistan-Fiction! Summary of eRumor: Pictures of a military combat helicopter are circulated with a message that says “our boys” across the water painted it to look like a bird of prey. The message says it’s operating in Afghanistan and is “no doubt causing quite …
Fancy paint job on American helicopter in Afghanistan?-Fiction! Read More »
Pictures of Larry in his high-flying chair
“Grammy Gordon,” the feisty Grandmother in a Wheelchair Who Decked Six Airport Security Guards-Fiction! Summary of eRumor: The story is of an 83-year-old grandmother named Ruth “Grammy” Gordon who is confined to a wheelchair. She got into a scuffle with six security guards at an airport and got the upper hand on all of them. …
A beautiful picture of a nebula said to have been taken by NASA and the space-based Hubbell telescope. The eRumor says the scientists call it “The Eye of God.”
Formation Flight of Jet Fighters Spell “USA”-Fiction! Summary of eRumor: The picture is of a large number of U.S. jet fighters flying in a formation that spells the letters “USA” and is said to be from an event at Randolph Air Force Base. The Truth: We ran the is picture through …
Advanced Russian Fighter Found in the Sand in Iraq-Truth! & Fiction! Summary of eRumor: Several Iraqi fighter jets are said to have been found buried in the desert in Iraq including a Russian MiG-25 “Foxbat.” The eRumor says the find was significant to the U.S. because of the sophisticated systems aboard the planes. The …
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A sequence of pictures of a space shuttle exploding in space said to have been from an Israeli satellite that caught the shuttle Columbia breaking apart.
