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Video: F-35A night refueling

April 7, 2012, 6:00 am
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Just released by Lockheed Martin, a short but interesting video showing the F-35 performing night refueling from both a U.S. Air Force KC-135 and KC-10. Related articles Photo: F-35 completes first night air-to-air refueling (theaviationist.com) KC-130J: a tactical gas station in the sky. Serving fighters, bombers, choppers. And maybe even F-35s sometime in the future. [...]
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Nellis AFB Strike Eagles: the 17th Weapons Squadron’s F-15Es at work

April 7, 2012, 1:09 pm
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Part of the 57th Wing, U.S. Air Force’s largest composite wing (that oversees all flying ops at Nellis AFB, Nevada, including the Red Flag and Green Flag exercises), the USAF Weapons School teaches graduate-level instructor courses to officers of the combat and mobility air forces. It is made of 17 squadrons, 10 of those based [...]
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All the war tech you’ll find in “Act of Valor” action movie

April 7, 2012, 4:23 pm
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There are various reasons why “Act of Valor”, the movie released on Feb. 24, 2012, is interesting from the military geek point of view. First of all it features the Navy SEALs some of which are not actors but regular guys, active duty military that have taken part to the most dangerous U.S. special operations [...]
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This could be the look of the Dutch F-35

April 8, 2012, 2:39 pm
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On Apr 1, 2012, the first F-35A CTOL (Conventional Take Off and Landing) for The Netherlands rolled out of the F-35 production facility. Image credit: Lockheed Martin Known as AN-1, the aircraft that has just left the Fort Worth final assembly line, will be assigned to Eglin AFB, Florida, for training and operational tests of [...]
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“Fox 1 away”: four F-15s firing live air-to-air missiles. At the same time.

April 9, 2012, 8:30 am
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I find the below image extremely interesting. It was taken a couple of years ago (most probably in 2010) and I’ve found it because it was recently selected by the 173d FW as their Facebook page cover picture. It depicts four F-15 Eagles from the 173rd Fighter Wing, Oregon Air National Guard, live-firing AIM-7 Sparrow [...]
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First images of Mig-21s in Free Libya Air Force markings

April 9, 2012, 12:40 pm
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The following Reuters images, taken on the runway at Tammahint, 15 km (9 miles) from the southern Libyan city of Sabha, on Apr. 3, 2012, are the first ones showing Libyan Mig-21s in Free Libya Air Force markings. Image credit: Reuters Although it is extremely difficult to determine because of the low quality of the [...]
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Yes. These are real chemtrails. Nothing to do with jet planes or conspiracy theories though.

April 10, 2012, 9:00 am
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I’ve already refuted conspiracy theories based on the so-called “chemtrails” (short for chemical trails) in a previous post on this blog. The term “chemtrail” has become quite famous in the last years since there is a lot of people who believe that the characteristic white trails of high flying aircraft are the proof of some [...]
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B-1s and F-22s involved in a long range strike exercise. Getting ready for North Korea or Iran?

April 10, 2012, 10:00 am
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U.S. F-22s, along with E-3s, F-16s, KC-135 and B-1s took part on Apr. 4, 2012, to an exercise aimed at validating Bones capability to successfully perform long range strike missions similar to one conducted in Libya in the early stages of Operation Odyssey Dawn. Dubbed Operation Chimichanga, the exercise saw three B-1 bombers from the [...]
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Video: The Pave Hawk’s refueling probe point of view

April 10, 2012, 1:26 pm
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A cool video, from a different angle, showing an HH-60G belonging to the 176th Wing of Alaska Air National Guard during Exercise Mojave Viper. Helicopters belonging to the 210 RQS and 212 RQS from Joint Base Elemendorf-Richardson, Alaska, trained with the Marines at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twenty-Nine Palms, California. Related articles [...]
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Two pilots shocked to find German Typhoons hot on their tail

April 11, 2012, 4:30 am
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Two pilots flying what they thought was a routine flight to Germany for servicing of their Embraer Phenom executive jet had more than they bargained for when two Luftwaffe Typhoons appeared on their wing tip. According to The Local website, the two German Eurofighters were scrambled from Norvenich airbase after British firm Hangar 8 had [...]
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Video: Free Syrian Army’s anti-aircraft fire aiming at regime’s gunship helicopter

April 11, 2012, 7:00 am
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The following video, posted by a visitor on The Aviationist Facebook page shows anti-aircraft fire from opposition forces/Free Syrian Army (FSyA) aiming at a Syrian regime’s Mil Mi-8/17 Hip helicopter. It’s extremely hard to say which type of weapon was used to try to shoot down the chopper. It’s a heavy machinegun of some kind. [...]
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U.S. drones to be nuclear powered?

April 11, 2012, 9:00 am
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It has emerged that Sandia National Laboratories, the U.S. government’s principle nuclear research and development agency, and defense contractor Northrop Grumman are working on powering the next generation of drones with nuclear power. With nuclear powered drones, endurance could stop being measured in hours and would be measured in months with excess power used to [...]
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Two Marines killed and two severely injured in MV-22 Osprey tilt rotor aircraft crash in Morocco

April 11, 2012, 3:27 pm
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Two marines were killed and two others severely injured in the crash of a USMC MV-22 tilt rotor aircraft in the southern province of Tan Tan, Morocco, on Apr. 11, 2012. The Osprey, belonging to the Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 261 (VMM-261) based at MCAS New River, NC, was operating from the amphibious assault ship [...]
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Photo: “Check your six”. You’ve got a quadricopter drone behind you

April 12, 2012, 7:00 am
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That is a nice picture. It was taken on Jan. 12, 2012, at Lauberhorn in Wengen, Switzerland, and shows a TV drone (not a quadricopter but a 8-rotor robocopter or a “Octocopter”) flying beside Canada’s Erick Guay during the second practice of the men’s Alpine skiing World Cup downhill race. Image credit: Reuters Once helicopters [...]
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Japan worried about Russian and Chinese intelligence-gathering planes during North Korean missile launch

April 12, 2012, 7:07 am
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More than the anticipated North Korea’s missile route over East China Sea, what seems to worry a lot the Japan Defense Ministry is the possibility that its ships fitted Long Range Surveillance and Tracking (LRST) systems, deployed to monitor the launch, could be approached by Russian or Chinese intelligence-gathering aircraft. According to the Daily Yomiuri [...]
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Did you know Saab J35 Drakens could perform the “Cobra” maneuver?

April 12, 2012, 9:30 am
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The Sukhoi Su-27 became famous all around the world for doing an aerobatic maneuver, named after the Soviet test pilot Viktor Pugachev, who performed it publicly in 1989 at the Paris Le Bourget air show: the “Pugachev’s Cobra” (or simply “Cobra”). In a Cobra, the plane suddenly raises the nose to the veritical position (or [...]
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[Simulation] Here’s what North Korea’s missile launch might look like

April 12, 2012, 11:52 am
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Based on publicly available stuff, Analytical Graphics has produced a computer simulation showing North Korean Unha-3 long-range rocket’s possible path, tracking assets and landing zone. As highlighted by North Korea Tech website: The simulation lacks of the most recent theories on the precise launch path, such as a slight dog-leg turn in the trajectory of [...]
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Photo: Kamov Ka-31 helicopter landing on the deck of a U.S. Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser

April 12, 2012, 1:19 pm
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During the Cold War, such type of helicopter would have been shot down by a U.S. warship. However, on Apr. 11, 2012, as the following picture shows, a Kamov Ka-31 helicopter belonging to the Indian Navy landed on the flight deck of the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Bunker Hill (CG 52) during Malabar 2012, a [...]
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North Korea’s failed missile launch: a Korean Airlines A330 over East China Sea (temporarily) on the projected flight path

April 12, 2012, 4:46 pm
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The news that has confirmed the launch of the Unha-3 rocket was announced by South Korea’s YTN television network around 22.52GMT. As soon as the news spread, I checked Planefinder.net to see if there was any aircraft (using ADS-B) along the missile’s projected flight path and found a Korean Air KAL8658 overflying the East China [...]
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Typhoons sonic boom during terrorist hijack alarm causes chaos in UK

April 13, 2012, 5:30 am
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At 18.10LT on Thursday Apr. 12 emergency agency telephone switch boards started receiving reports of a large bang or explosion that could be heard all over the southern UK. It took a couple of hours before the reason for the mysterious bang was made public. As most countries do, the RAF maintains a number of [...]
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