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[Updated] Diamond Jubilee flypast over London as seen from a four-engined...
Released by the UK’s Ministry of Defence, the following footage brings you on board an Avro Lancaster bomber of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight during the Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee...
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North Korean fighters fly dangerously close to South Korean airspace...
It took about 24 hours but eventually details about the (almost) close encounter close to the border between North and South Korea emerged. The news that some North Korean fighters had violated the DMZ...
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[Special Feature] D-Day: a +1000 Aerial Armada (including troop-carrying...
At 22.15 on the evening of Jun. 5 1944, the first engine on the first plane spluttered into life announcing the biggest airborne operation ever undertaken: delayed by 24 hours due to poor weather...
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New theories about the Stealth Black Hawk emerge as the UH-60 turns 40.
The famous Stealth Black Hawk helicopter revealed by the Osama Bin Laden raid is one of the hot topics of this blog. I still receive many comments about readers who give hints about the actual shape of...
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Watch this: Mysterious luminous object appears over Lebanon, Turkish-Syrian...
Update Jun. 10, 2012 22.20 GMT A mysterious luminous object appeared over north Lebanon, Marjaayoun, the Bekaa and the Syrian-Turkish border, as well as over Iran on Jun. 7 evening. Although according...
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[Animation] The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee flypast over London as seen from a...
Click on the image to start animation The following animation showing the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee flypast over Buckingham palace was recorded on PlanePlotter by John Locker. In this animation we can...
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Feel the G-force: this is what pulling some Gs doing aerobatics with an F-16...
Uploaded today to Youtube by the Royal Danish Air Force, the following HD video lets you join a Danish pilot during a solo display practice flight. The lack of soundtrack give the opportunity to hear...
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Did you know small drones have an arrestor hook? Photos show U.S. Army RQ-7...
Made available by the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, the following pictures not only provide some behind the scenes images of the RQ-7 Shadow operations (at Forward Operating Base...
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Phantom Phorever!!! Wittmund hosts last F-4 Spotter Day. For real Phantom...
On Jun. 5, Wittmund airbase, home of Germany’s last operational F-4 Phantoms the Jadgdeschwader (JG) 71 “Richthofen”, hosted a Spotter Day. Possibly the last one before the entire fleet is eventually...
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Oriental Turboprops: U.S. C-130 Hercules cargo planes flying near Mt. Fuji,...
The following cool image shows a formation of U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules cargo aircraft flying in formation on Jun. 5, 2012, as they return from the “Samurai Surge” training mission near Mount Fuji,...
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Anybody able to ID the new pod carried by a British Typhoon at RAF Coningsby?
Update Jun. 10, 2012 15.30 GMT The following image was taken by The Aviationist’s contributor Alessandro Fucito at RAF Coningsby on May 28. It shows a local Eurofighter Typhoon FGR4 ZJ935 [DJ]...
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The “USS Enterprise fired upon enemy fighters” story: why attacking a U.S....
On Jun. 8, the news of a presumed attack on USS Enterprise spread on Twitter. It all had started few days earlier, with someone who had heard from a “credible source” (reportedly a wife of a sailor on...
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Cockpit view: F/A-18F Super Hornet Refuels from another Super Hornet
This video provides a different point of view: this is what refueling your F/A-18F Super Hornet from another “Rhino” (as the SH is dubbed in the naval aviation “slang”) looks like. The buddy refueler...
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[Special Photo Report] Phantom Heaven: among the last F-4 combat planes....
Do you remember the first images of the Wittmund Spotter Day published a few days ago? Here you can find a gallery of interesting pictures, taken by Giovanni Maduli on both Jun. 5, during the Open...
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Video: Five next-generation A400M military airlifters flying in formation.
A unique formation, including all five of the programme’s flight test A400M next-generation airlifters, was flown by the Airbus Flight Test teams on Jun. 7, in Toulouse, France. After the special...
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Helicopter door gunner: if you feel a sense of panic when at height, this job...
Taken on May 24, 2012, during Exercise Eager Lion 12, the following image shows Lance Cpl. Sean Matthews, UH-1N Huey crew chief, Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 269 attached to Marine Medium...
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BAM(s)! The crash of a U.S. Navy Global Hawk in Maryland could be the end of...
On Jun. 11, the U.S. Navy announced that one of its nearly 200M USD Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) demonstrator aircraft crashed during a test flight near Bloodworth Island in, Dorchester...
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Iranian Mohajer-2 drone appears in Venezuela. Chavez’s building his own drone...
Under the name of Sant Arpia, the Mohajer 2, a quite famous Made-in-Iran drone, is currently flying in Venezuela. Reportedly operating from the Cavim (CA Venezolana de Industria Militares) Maracay...
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Airman dies after falling from an Italian Air Force helicopter involved in...
On Jun. 12, an Italian Air Force noncommissioned officer died after falling out of an HH-139A (Italian military designation for the AW139) medium twin engine helicopter involved in training activity at...
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Photo: Pararescueman (with swim fins) jumps from a HC-130P/N King during a...
The following cool photo, allegedly taken on Oct. 27, 2010 (even if the EXIF says Sept. 11, 2009) shows pararescuemen from the 920th Rescue Wing jumping from an HC-130P/N King while performing a...
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