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Some interesting details about the F-15E Strike Eagle crashed in UAE (while en route to Afghanistan)

May 3, 2012, 12:27 pm
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On May 3, 2012, a U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft crashed in the United Arab Emirates. Fortunately, both the pilot and the WSO (Weapon Systems Officer) ejected safely and were later rescued with minor injuries. Although the first news agencies reported that the combat plane crahsed during a “training mission”, according to our [...]
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Lockheed Martin’s picture of the final F-22 Raptor. Taken with a (costly) Hasselblad H4D super-high definition camera.

May 3, 2012, 1:09 pm
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Here’s a cool image of the final F-22 aircraft (Air Force serial number 10-4195) delivered to the U.S. Air Force on May 2, 2012. The aircraft will be assigned to the 3rd Wing at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JEBR), Alaska, where F-22s already equip the active duty 90th and 525th Fighter Squadrons and the 302nd FS, [...]
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Two F-22 pilots make public outing: “not comfortable” flying the Raptor right now

May 4, 2012, 6:00 am
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Two F-22 pilots have spoken for the first time as on CBS 60 Minutes, in an interview with Lesley Stahl that will be broadcast Sunday, May 6 at 7 p.m. ET/PT. According to Dave Majumdar at Flight Global, the show featuring the “military whistleblowers” could explain the Air Combat Command chief Gen Mike Hostage’s sudden [...]
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Top Guns over the Canary Islands: DACT 2012 photo report

May 4, 2012, 9:00 am
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Between Apr. 16 and 27, Gando airbase, Canary Islands, hosted the annual DACT (Dissimilar Air Combat Training) exercise. Organized by the Spanish Air Force, the 2012 edition was attended by about 40 aircraft, including the local F-18 Hornets of the Ala 46, the Typhoons of the Ala 11 from Moron, the F-18s of the Ala [...]
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Curious photo: This is not a Hollywood film set but the U.S. Marine Corps F-18 Hornet simulator

May 4, 2012, 10:30 am
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The following picture shows an F/A-18C Hornet Tactical Operational Flight Trainer (TOFT) that the U.S. Marine Corps have recently relocated to MCAS (Marine Corps Air Station) Iwakuni, Japan. The TOFT is used to support the entire strike-fighter pilot’s training including radar intercept, imagery and warning system operation; weapons delivery; HARM (high-speed, anti-radiation missile) system operation; [...]
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Photo: C-17 creates a huge cyclonic twist during NASA test

May 4, 2012, 1:37 pm
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There’s a certain interest in technologies capable to detect volcanic ash in flight since, in April 2010, the European airspace was almost paralyzed as a consequence of the eruption of the volcano Eyjafsallajokull, in Iceland. Many airports were closed and thousands commercial flights cancelled whereas, on Apr. 15, melted ash was found on the inside [...]
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There’s a place in London where RAF Typhoons will buzz your car during the Olympics

May 4, 2012, 3:12 pm
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If you plan to visit London during the Olympic Games and you are an aviation geek, I suggest you to pay a visit to one of the best (temporary) spotting places ever. Judging by the image below, published on May 2 by the Daily Telegraph and taken during Exercise Olympic Guardian, the viewing area is [...]
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Here’s what the future Air Force One replacement will look like

May 5, 2012, 6:00 am
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Within the end of the decade, the U.S. Air Force will have to replace its most famous and representative plane, the same that has brought President Obama on his surprise trip to Afghanistan at the beginning of the month: the Air Force One. What is commonly known as “Air Force One” by the radio callsign [...]
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French fighter jet and helicopter launched to intercept a paraglider approaching a nuclear plant

May 5, 2012, 8:33 am
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On May 2, a Greenpeace activist flying a paraglider, entered the forbidden airspace over the Le Bugey nuclear power plant, between Lyon and Geneva, and dropped a smoke device on the reactor containment structure to demonstrate the vulnerability of a nuclear facility. Two days later, a paraglider approaching the restricted airspace that protects the nuclear [...]
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“Risk must be balanced with the requirement for the capability” Air Combat Command chief still confident in F-22 says

May 5, 2012, 2:39 pm
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According to a press release issued on May 5, 2012, Gen. Mike Hostage, chief of Air Combat Command, will soon begin flying the Raptor in order to better understand what his F-22 pilots are dealing with. In a recent press briefing, Hostage told reporters that “a very small number” of F-22 pilots have asked not [...]
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Israeli spy blimp crashes near Gaza

May 6, 2012, 7:57 am
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An Israel Defence Forces observation airship crashed on May. 4, on the Israeli side of the Gaza border. The spy blimp was performing a routine surveillance deployment in the Gaza sector when a civilian crop duster flying by hit its cable. As a consequence of the incident, the balloon crashed whereas the crop duster landed [...]
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Photo: The most famous U.S. nuclear bomber generates (peace sign) rainbow condensation cloud

May 6, 2012, 12:57 pm
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The following photo shows a B-52H Stratofortress from the 96th Bomb Squadron, Barksdale Air Force Base, La., generating a rainbow-colored condensation cloud on take off on a training flight, on Apr 18. I found it a bit funny that the most famous nuclear bomber in the U.S. Air Force inventory created one of the most [...]
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More Strike Eagles deploying to Afghanistan. Once again via “Moron” airbase.

May 7, 2012, 7:00 am
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Even if many readers didn’t know this airport until I published the story of the F-22 deployed to the UAE, Moron (whose actual name is Morón) is a strategic airbase that can be used by any American plane moving eastbound from the U.S. It is used as a stopover by all the F-16 and F-15 [...]
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Near miss as Britain’s biggest warship squeezes through Thames Barrier to attend the Olympic Guard exercise

May 7, 2012, 10:00 am
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Along with the Typhoon on QRA (Quick Reaction Alert) at RAF Northolt, west London, the Olympic Guard exercise, whose goal is to test the security plan aimed to prevent a 9/11 type of attack during this summer’s Olympics, saw also the participation of the HMS Ocean  amphibious assault ship. In fact, while several other assets [...]
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Lockheed Martin’s Twitter campaign to save the F-22′s checkered reputation

May 7, 2012, 3:45 pm
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On Sunday May 6, few hours ahead of CBS 60 Minutes featuring an interview with two F-22 pilots who have asked not to fly the Raptor fighter jet because of the hypoxia symptoms experienced with the fifth generation stealth fighter, Lockheed Martin launched a campaign to promote the Raptor on Twitter and Flickr. Here’s the [...]
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Cool upside down self-portrait photo of an Israeli F-15 fighter pilot (wearing a local-made Display And Sight Helmet)

May 8, 2012, 7:30 am
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You will not find many official photographs of the Israeli airmen. Even less showing their custom-modified flight gear. However, an interesting image released by the Israel Defence Force, not only shows an Israeli Air Force F-15I backseater during an inverted climb above Judea and Samaria (with the Dead Sea clearly visible on the right), but gives [...]
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Norwegian P-3 maritime patrol aircraft’s close encounter with an aggressive Russian Mig-31 Foxhound

May 8, 2012, 4:12 pm
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According to the Norwegian newspaper Andoyposten which gave the news, Apr. 10, 2012 will go down as a date that one particular Royal Norwegian Air Force P-3 crew will never forget. Whilst flying over the Barents Sea on a routine mission, the P-3 Orion came across a Russian Air Force Mig-31 Foxhound. Nothing unusual, apparently, as the [...]
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Russian Sukhoi SuperJet-100 goes off radars in Jakarta during demo tour: Controlled Flight Into Terrain and Hijacking not ruled out

May 9, 2012, 6:30 am
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On May 9, at 15.30LT, a Russian Sukhoi Superjet 100 (97004), involved in a demo tour in southeast Asia, with 46 people on board has disappeared from radars, approximately 36 nautical miles to the south of Jakarta, during a planned 2,5 hr demonstrative flight from Jakarta Halim Perdanakusuma Airport to Jakarta Halim Perdanakusuma Airport (Indonesia). [...]
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Photo: Costa Concordia shipwreck as seen from a Typhoon fighter jet

May 9, 2012, 9:00 am
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The Costa Concordia cruise ship that ran aground aground on rocks off the Isola del Giglio Island, Italy, has been photographed from almost every angle: on the Internet you can find pictures showing the luxury cruise ship as it lies half-submerged on its side, taken by scuba divers, by the crew members of the helicopters involved [...]
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First weapon designed to be dropped by gravity from a drone makes debut

May 9, 2012, 2:16 pm
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Once used only to perform ISR (Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance), drones are getting new weapons day after day confirming a growing trend to arm current UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) in order to make them capable to perform UCAVs (Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles) missions. Lockheed Martin has developed a new weapon: a drop-glide bomb called Shadow Hawk. [...]
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