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Seventy Years Ago Today, Chuck Yeager Became The First Pilot To Break The...
70 years ago, the first manned supersonic flight. On Oct. 14, 1947, U.S Air Force Captain Charles “Chuck” Yeager (now 94), flying the rocket-powered Bell X-1 aircraft #46-062 christened “Glamorous...
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Interesting Photo Shows F-22 Raptor Landing At RAF Lakenheath With Open...
This Is Something You Don’t See Too Often. The photographs in this post were taken by our contributor Alessandro Fucito on Oct. 10, 2017. They show a U.S. Air Force Raptor jet, belonging to the 27th...
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Spanish Hornet Crashes During Take Off From Torrejon Air Base Killing Pilot
The Spanish Air Force has just suffered another deadly accident: an EF-18 Hornet from Ala 12.It’s The 12th Major Incident Involving A Hornet In The Last 17 Months. Just five days after losing a...
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Japanese F-4EJ Kai Phantom II Heavily Damaged in Runway Accident, Crew...
Hyakuri Phantom Burns on Ground, Reports Suggest Aircraft Written Off. A McDonnell-Douglas F-4EJ “Kai” Phantom II attached to either the 301st or 302nd Tactical Fighter Squadron of the 7th Air Wing of...
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Israeli Air Force F-35I “Adir” Involved In A Bird Strike Incident Gets Grounded
An Israeli Air Force F-35 has been involved in a bird strike during a training sortie. And the incident has fueled some weird speculations… An Israeli Air Force F-35I “Adir” (Mighty) was involved in a...
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Military and Contract Air Assets (Including U.S. Air Force MQ-9 Reaper...
All Available Airborne Fire Fighting Assets Pressed into Service, Fires Continue. A massive combined military and contract air operation has been flying over the U.S. state of California this week in...
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We Have Found Ultra Rare Footage Showing A B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber Dropping...
This Is Probably The First Clip Showing The B-2 As It Drops The GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator. The B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is the only aircraft in the U.S. Air Force inventory currently capable...
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Here’s 2017 West Coast Strike Fighter Ball Video: No ATFLIR and No Gun Camera...
This year’s West Coast Strike Fighter Ball Video does not feature the “real ops” stuff: bombs, ATFLIR footage, and aerial “gun camera” clips. It seems that someone was not happy when a recent cruise...
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First F-35B Assembled Outside Of The U.S. Makes First Flight In Italy
“BL-01” is the first Italian F-35B STOVL jet. On Oct. 24, the first F-35B, the Short Take-Off Vertical Landing variant of the the F-35 Lightning II, the first assembled internationally, flew its first...
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Chinese Stealth Goes Operational, Carrier Program and Export Initiatives...
China Has Emerged as a Preeminent Global Strategic Super Power: What Does It Mean? During the past five years China’s defense programs have not accelerated, they have increased by multiples into...
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B-52 At Edwards AFB Sports Nose Art That Commemorates Its Past As...
A B-52 from the 419th Flight Test Squadron was given a new nose art to commemorate the Buff’s involvement in a top-secret test program. An interesting image has been released by Edwards Air Force Base...
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Yemen’s Houthi Rebels Claim They Have Shot Down A Saudi Eurofighter Typhoon...
Yemeni media outlets are reporting that a Royal Saudi Air Force Typhoon was shot down over Yemen yesterday. However no pictures have been released to back Houthi rebels claims, so far. According to...
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Here Are Some Interesting Details About The Way U.S. B-2 Bombers Trained Over...
Some unusual activity took place in the skies over Missouri a couple of weeks ago. Including B-2s referring to air strikes on DPKR target on the radio. Just routine stuff or a message to Pyongyang?...
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First F-35B Assembled Internationally And Destined To The Italian Air Force...
The first Italian F-35B has performed its first STOVL test flight. On Oct. 30, the first Italian F-35B, the first assembled outside the US, carried out its first flight in short-take and vertical...
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That Time 25 F-117s Flew Over Holloman AFB In The Largest Stealth Aircraft...
On Oct. 27, 2006 a 25-plane formation celebrated the Nighthawk’s 25th anniversary and 250,000 flying hour. The Lockheed F-117A, the world’s first operational stealth aircraft and one of the most secret...
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