The KC-130 is an extended range tanker transport aircraft modified for aerial refueling of aircraft equipped with an IFR (In Flight Refueling) probe: in other words, F-35B and C, the variants for the U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Navy.
David Cenciotti is a journalist based in Rome, Italy. He is the Founder and Editor of “The Aviationist”, one of the world’s most famous and read military aviation blogs. Since 1996, he has written for major worldwide magazines, including Air Forces Monthly, Combat Aircraft, and many others, covering aviation, defense, war, industry, intelligence, crime and cyberwar. He has reported from the U.S., Europe, Australia and Syria, and flown several combat planes with different air forces. He is a former 2nd Lt. of the Italian Air Force, a private pilot and a graduate in Computer Engineering. He has written five books and contributed to many more ones.
Some of the F-35A Lightning II aircraft currently at RAF Lakenheath will forward deploy to Estonia tomorrow. Meanwhile, the first RAF Typhoons have arrived in Romania. According to information available to the Estonia ERR media […]
F-35A Mini-Heritage Flight and First Lightning II at Selfridge ANGB for 100th Anniversary. The USAF F-35A Lightning II made history again this past weekend when it visited Selfridge Air National Guard Base for the first […]
On Jan. 19, 2012, the Lockheed Martin F-35A CTOL (Convetional Take Off and Landing) performed its very first night flight launching from Edwards Air Force Base, California. Piloted by Lockheed Martin Test Pilot Mark Ward, […]
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^LMAO. Posts like this are why I love the internet.
Talk to any fighter pilot about the danger of contrails. If you have something substantive to say, say it.
its very humid out….every aircraft would have the same phenomenon…you cant detect this small amount of wind turbulence unless you were focusing right at it.
You have no idea what you’re talking about, do you? Stealth doesn’t stop people from visually seeing you, it is the process of reducing radar and inferred signatures.
Talk to any fighter pilot about the danger of contrails.
In a fight, at least some choices are often made by your opponent.
“Locking on to the enemy contrails right now, Sir!”
^LMAO. Posts like this are why I love the internet.
Talk to any fighter pilot about the danger of contrails. If you have something substantive to say, say it.
its very humid out….every aircraft would have the same phenomenon…you cant detect this small amount of wind turbulence unless you were focusing right at it.
You have no idea what you’re talking about, do you? Stealth doesn’t stop people from visually seeing you, it is the process of reducing radar and inferred signatures.
Talk to any fighter pilot about the danger of contrails.
In a fight, at least some choices are often made by your opponent.
“Locking on to the enemy contrails right now, Sir!”