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Some interesting details about the F-15E Strike Eagle crashed in UAE (while...
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...
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Lockheed Martin’s picture of the final F-22 Raptor. Taken with a (costly)...
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...
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Two F-22 pilots make public outing: “not comfortable” flying the Raptor right...
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,...
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Top Guns over the Canary Islands: DACT 2012 photo report
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...
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Curious photo: This is not a Hollywood film set but the U.S. Marine Corps...
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...
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Photo: C-17 creates a huge cyclonic twist during NASA test
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...
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There’s a place in London where RAF Typhoons will buzz your car during the...
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,...
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Here’s what the future Air Force One replacement will look like
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...
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French fighter jet and helicopter launched to intercept a paraglider...
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...
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“Risk must be balanced with the requirement for the capability” Air Combat...
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...
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Israeli spy blimp crashes near Gaza
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...
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Photo: The most famous U.S. nuclear bomber generates (peace sign) rainbow...
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....
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More Strike Eagles deploying to Afghanistan. Once again via “Moron” airbase.
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...
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Near miss as Britain’s biggest warship squeezes through Thames Barrier to...
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...
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Lockheed Martin’s Twitter campaign to save the F-22′s checkered reputation
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...
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Cool upside down self-portrait photo of an Israeli F-15 fighter pilot...
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...
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Norwegian P-3 maritime patrol aircraft’s close encounter with an aggressive...
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...
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Russian Sukhoi SuperJet-100 goes off radars in Jakarta during demo tour:...
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...
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Photo: Costa Concordia shipwreck as seen from a Typhoon fighter jet
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...
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First weapon designed to be dropped by gravity from a drone makes debut
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...
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