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Video: F-35A night refueling
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...
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Nellis AFB Strike Eagles: the 17th Weapons Squadron’s F-15Es at work
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...
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All the war tech you’ll find in “Act of Valor” action movie
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...
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This could be the look of the Dutch F-35
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...
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“Fox 1 away”: four F-15s firing live air-to-air missiles. At the same time.
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...
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First images of Mig-21s in Free Libya Air Force markings
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...
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Yes. These are real chemtrails. Nothing to do with jet planes or conspiracy...
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...
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B-1s and F-22s involved in a long range strike exercise. Getting ready for...
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...
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Video: The Pave Hawk’s refueling probe point of view
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...
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Two pilots shocked to find German Typhoons hot on their tail
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...
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Video: Free Syrian Army’s anti-aircraft fire aiming at regime’s gunship...
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....
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U.S. drones to be nuclear powered?
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...
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Two Marines killed and two severely injured in MV-22 Osprey tilt rotor...
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...
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Photo: “Check your six”. You’ve got a quadricopter drone behind you
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...
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Japan worried about Russian and Chinese intelligence-gathering planes during...
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...
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Did you know Saab J35 Drakens could perform the “Cobra” maneuver?
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...
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[Simulation] Here’s what North Korea’s missile launch might look like
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...
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Photo: Kamov Ka-31 helicopter landing on the deck of a U.S. Ticonderoga-class...
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...
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North Korea’s failed missile launch: a Korean Airlines A330 over East China...
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...
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Typhoons sonic boom during terrorist hijack alarm causes chaos in UK
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...
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