A massive plume of black smoke appeared in the skies above Edwards Air Force Base in Kern County. Images began to surface Monday on X showing the cloud. “Did something just happen at Edwards Air Force Base? Currently seeing a large column coming from the base, cams are aligned with one of the runways,” one...
A US Air Force B-52 Stratofortress crashed shortly after takeoff at Edwards Air Force Base in California, on Monday. The post DEVELOPING: Air Force B-52 Bomber Crashes Shortly After Takeoff at Edwards Air Force Base in California appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
A huge plume of smoke was seen near Edwards Air Force Base.
The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress took off at around 11:20 a.m. local time, the base said on social media.
President Donald Trump’s giant birthday party at the White House appears to have grounded flights at a local airport in Washington, D.C.All flights at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) were “paused” Sunday evening due to the president’s birthday celebration, according to Clara-Sophia Daly, an immigration reporter for Mission Local in San Francisco. “The air traffic controllers were not warned, nor were the airport staff or travelers,” Daly wrote on X Sunday night, after her own flight was severely delayed. The pilot said the delay was “one of the most frustrating things I’ve experienced in 20 years of aviation,” according to Daly. “The pilot says the reason given for the shutdown is that there is going to be some kind of military jet air show above the White House,” she wrote in another post. In the skies above Trump’s UFC fight, the U.S. military mounted an extravagant air show for the president, including a formation of the Navy’s Blue Angels and Air Force Thunderbirds, as well as an appearance from a B1-B Lancer, a heavy long-range bomber. Aaron Parnas had a different theory, however. MeidasTouch previously reported that a commercial airline pilot filed aviation safety reports after being exposed to the powerful lighting used during the construction of the UFC octagon on the White House grounds upon their descent into DCA.“This confirms my reporting with @MeidasTouch—pilots were being blinded by the UFC octagon, and now, based on this tweet, all flights have been paused because of it,” Parnas wrote on X in response to Daly’s thread.These reports raise serious concerns about the coordination between the White House and aviation authorities, and unscored just how little Trump cares about the American people as he threw himself a $60 million party at the taxpayer’s expense.
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President Donald Trump's UFC spectacle on the White House South Lawn may have to contend with one thing his administration can't bully into submission: mosquitos.According to a forecast from The Weather Channel, UFC Freedom 250 is walking into a near-biblical mess on Sunday. Forecasters put the chance of thunderstorms at 60 percent, with heavy downpours and wind gusts reaching up to 34 mph that could delay the outdoor bouts entirely.The storms are only the start. The Weather Channel warned that brutal Washington humidity is shoving the heat index into triple digits, the kind of swampy misery the capital is famous for in mid-June. And then come the bugs. Forecasters said fighters will have to battle "massive swarms of mosquitos and gnats" inside the cage, turning the octagon into an open-air buffet.If the rain, heat and insects sound like a checklist of ancient plagues, the lightning rules supply the final twist. The Weather Channel noted that the event's 92-foot overhang, the towering structure organizers have dubbed "the Claw," should at least keep the octagon dry. But a single lightning strike within eight miles will trigger an automatic 30-minute freeze on the whole event, meaning the fights could stall again and again as storms roll through.The forecast caps a weekend Trump has hyped relentlessly, timed to his 80th birthday and billed as part of the nation's 250th anniversary. The cage match was elevated to the marquee attraction after musical performers bailed on the celebration earlier this month.Whether the heavens cooperate is another question entirely. For a president who loves to control the cameras, the sight of fighters swatting gnats through a rain delay is probably not the spectacle he had in mind.