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Boeing 747 mock-up used for Special Forces counter-terrorism training in...
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...
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Whistleblower pilots who did not want to fly the F-22 now ready to resume...
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...
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Don’t worry, this weird plane with 5 engines, is just a flying test bed for a...
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...
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“Aviation equivalent of Tutankhamun’s Tomb” in Western Sahara: a perfectly...
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,...
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“Viper Drone”: Boeing QF-16 aerial target for U.S. Air Force makes first flight
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...
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Dramatic rescue operation after Puma helicopter ditches in North Sea with 14...
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...
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The mysterious U.S. F-15E Strike Eagle detachment in Djibouti. Are they...
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...
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Video: Naval aviation-style airborne change of command (hardcore F-18 Hornet...
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...
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North Korean Military wages electronic war on South….Sort of!
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...
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Photo: C-17 (made barely visible in the darkness by the rotary beacons) is...
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...
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Second China’s J-20 stealth fighter prototype’s new radome: a sign of an...
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...
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Special colored F-16 chasing C-130 Hercules over Oslo during an air-to-air...
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...
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Syrian Air Force Mig-21 spotted over Hama for the first time since the...
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...
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As we wait for the sequel featuring the F-35, let’s celebrate Top Gun Day...
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,...
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Piper 28 intercepted by F-16s in Air Force One airspace violation: a couple...
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...
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[Updated] Photo: Second China’s J-20 stealth fighter prototype (almost) makes...
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...
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Libya: NATO must acknowledge and compesate 72 civilian victims of potentially...
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...
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“Operation Delawor”: when an entire U.S. Army airborne brigade, two F-100...
“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...
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These are the best (air-to-air) pictures of the Discovery mounted atop NASA’s...
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...
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Foam party! Hangar fire suppression system submerges F-15, F-16 and A-10 in...
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...
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