Boeing 747 mock-up used for Special Forces counter-terrorism training in Western Australia

May 9, 2012, 4:00 pm

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The ambitious al-Qaida’s affiliate in Yemen’s “underwear bomb plot“ to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner recently thwarted by CIA, has proved, once again, that civilian planes are still an attractive target for terrorists. For this reason, armed forces all around the world train to face the terrorist threat, not only in the air, but also on the [...]

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Whistleblower pilots who did not want to fly the F-22 now ready to resume flying the Raptor!

May 10, 2012, 5:30 am

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Here’s another chapter of the F-22 oxygen problems saga. According to their attorney, Frederick M. Morgan Jr, who talked to The Daily press on May 9, the two F-22 pilots who were among those pilot requesting not to fly the Raptor because of the oxygen-deprivation problems with the fifth generation stealth fighter, would be ready to [...]

Don’t worry, this weird plane with 5 engines, is just a flying test bed for a quite innovative FOD resistant engine

May 10, 2012, 9:45 am

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The following pictures show the Pratt & Whitney’s Boeing 747SP flying test bed at the company’s Mirabel Aerospace Centre, in Mirabel, Quebec, Canada, with a PW1217G engine flying on a specially designed stub wing. The “fuselage’s engine” is a PW127G, designed for the Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) aircraft, that was attached to the mini-Jumbo to [...]

“Aviation equivalent of Tutankhamun’s Tomb” in Western Sahara: a perfectly preserved plane found 70 years after it went down

May 10, 2012, 1:02 pm

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Polish oil company worker Jakub Perka was exploring a remote region of the Western Sahara desert in Egypt when he stumbled across a plane, later identified as a UK’s Royal Air Force P-40 Warhawk, almost intact and untouched, that went missing in 1942, during WWII. The plane was so perfectly preserved it still had guns [...]

“Viper Drone”: Boeing QF-16 aerial target for U.S. Air Force makes first flight

May 10, 2012, 2:44 pm

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The Lockheed Martin F-16 is one of the most famous combat planes in the world. The 4500th example was delivered at the company Fort Worth production facility, in Texas, on Apr. 3. Since the first Fighting Falcon (nicknamed “Viper” in the fighter pilots community) exited the production line in 1975, the multirole aircraft has been [...]

Dramatic rescue operation after Puma helicopter ditches in North Sea with 14 people on board

May 11, 2012, 4:55 am

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On May 10, an Ec225 Super Puma helicopter, operated by the BOND Offshore Helicopters, registered G-REDW),  made an emergency landing in the North Sea some 30 miles east of Aberdeen, Scotland. The Puma was on a routine ferry flight from Aberdeen capital of Scotland’s oil industry to Maersk Resillient and Ensco 102 drilling rigs in the Jasmine [...]

The mysterious U.S. F-15E Strike Eagle detachment in Djibouti. Are they conducting covert air strikes in Yemen?

May 11, 2012, 8:30 am

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Although their presence over there is not a secret (since it was announced about 10 years ago and you can see some by simply pointing Google Earth on Djibouti International Airport, as done in this interesting OSGEOINT analysis) what’s still unclear is what eight U.S. F-15Es are currently doing in the Horn of Africa. They [...]

Video: Naval aviation-style airborne change of command (hardcore F-18 Hornet porn)

May 11, 2012, 2:24 pm

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The following video is the 1,200th one uploaded by the U.S. Navy on Youtube. It shows, from the inside, the VFA-211 airborne change of command that took place while the “Fighting Checkmates” Strike Fighter Squadron is currently deployed with the USS Enterprise in the 5th Fleet area of operation. VF-211 was redesignated Strike Fighter Squadron [...]

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North Korean Military wages electronic war on South….Sort of!

May 12, 2012, 4:30 am

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Reports coming out of Seoul suggest that its reclusive neighbour North Korea has started to wage a jamming campaign against the most wired country in the world, with the intention of jamming GPS signals. 553 civilian airliners reported that their GPS equipment had failed whilst approaching Incheon and Gimpo airports, South Korea’s major civilian air hubs during [...]

Photo: C-17 (made barely visible in the darkness by the rotary beacons) is readied for departure in Afghanistan

May 12, 2012, 9:00 am

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A C-17 Globemaster II performs pre-flight checks and engine start up in front of a loadmaster of the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron in a picture taken at “an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia” on May 4, 2012. The undisclosed location is most probably Bagram airfield, in Afghanistan, where Obama’s Air Force One landed (in the [...]

Second China’s J-20 stealth fighter prototype’s new radome: a sign of an installed AESA radar set?

May 12, 2012, 1:55 pm

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New images published on the Chinese Internet (and in particular those available on the HobbyShangai.net site) showing China’s J-20 “Mighty Dragon” new prototype clearly show an interesting detail: the aircraft coded “2002″ has a slightly different nose section than the first prototype, coded “2001″. In particular, instead of being installed on the right hand side [...]

Special colored F-16 chasing C-130 Hercules over Oslo during an air-to-air photoshoot generates panic among Norwegians

May 13, 2012, 6:00 am

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The following video was taken on May 9, 2012 when Royal Norwegian Air Force F-16AM serialled 80-3686 “686″ in the special color scheme to celebrate the 100 years of the Norwegian military air power from Kjeller rejoined with a C-130 from Gardemoen to take some pictures from the Hercules’s cargo door. Curiously, the sexy special [...]

Syrian Air Force Mig-21 spotted over Hama for the first time since the beginning of the uprising.

May 13, 2012, 10:01 am

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The following video shows a Syrian Arab Air Force Mig-21 overflying Hama, a town located some 220 km to the north of Damascus, Syria, on May 9, 2012. All the previous footage about the uprising depicted drones and gunship helicopters used by the Assad regime against the protesters in Homs and Hama. Even if the [...]

As we wait for the sequel featuring the F-35, let’s celebrate Top Gun Day with a funny video

May 13, 2012, 1:06 pm

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Top Gun was released on May 12, 1986 (at least in NYC). It’s by far the most famous (and in my honest opinion, still one of the best) Hollywood movie about military aviation ever reaching theaters, directed by Tony Scott starring Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer and Anthony Edwards. According to the creators of [...]

Piper 28 intercepted by F-16s in Air Force One airspace violation: a couple of lessons to be learned

May 13, 2012, 1:43 pm

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The Los Angeles Times has run a report that two F-16s were scrambled after a Piper 28 aircraft violated airspace restrictions which were in place due to President Obama being due to leave LAX (Los Angeles International Airport) on board Air Force One on May 11. NORAD said in a statement: “The fighters responded to [...]

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[Updated] Photo: Second China’s J-20 stealth fighter prototype (almost) makes maiden flight

May 14, 2012, 6:00 am

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On May 14, 2012, the second prototype of the J-20 Mighty Dragon, serialled “2002″, performed a high-speed taxi at Chengdu. Once again the images of the first flight were immediately available on the Chinese Internet and the news of the second prototype’s first flight spread across the world. However, according to some sources, the aircraft [...]

Libya: NATO must acknowledge and compesate 72 civilian victims of potentially unlawful air strikes, Human Rights Watch says

May 14, 2012, 8:00 am

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Last year’s Libya Air War saw the coalition of NATO and non-NATO members, operating within Operation Unified Protector, dropping some 3,644 LGBs, 2,844 GPS-guided, 1,150 precision-guided direct-fire weapons, to enforce the UN Security Council resolutions 1970 and 1973 and get rid of Gaddafi. However, in spite of the exclusive use of PGMs (Precision Guided Munitions) [...]

“Operation Delawor”: when an entire U.S. Army airborne brigade, two F-100 squadrons deployed to Iran for an exercise

May 14, 2012, 12:15 pm

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“Operation Delawor” is an episode of The Big Picture, a series of films produced by the U.S. Army and ran on the ABC-TV from 1951 to 1964. The television program featured exercises, battles, weaponry and famous soldiers’ biographies. Filmed in April 1964, “Operation Delawor” (from a Persian word meaning “courageous”) recounts of a 3-day exercise [...]

These are the best (air-to-air) pictures of the Discovery mounted atop NASA’s Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft

May 14, 2012, 2:05 pm

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The following pictures were published today on the U.S. Air Force Westover Air Reserve Base Facebook page. They show the Space Shuttle Discovery mounted atop NASA Shuttle Carrier Aircraft SCA (NASA 905) shortly after take off from Kennedy Space Center, in Florida, at about 7 a.m. EDT on on Apr. 17. The duo, followed by [...]

Foam party! Hangar fire suppression system submerges F-15, F-16 and A-10 in foam at Eglin Air Force Base

May 14, 2012, 3:15 pm

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According to “youmustvotenato”, the user who posted it to Reddit, the following picture was taken after the fire suppression system base went off because of a spark from a welder set. Clearly visible in the image an F-15 belonging to the 85th TES (Test and Evaluation Squadron), an F-16 of the 40 FLTS (Flight Test [...]