Winston Smith, Author at The Aviationist

The most interesting Warplanes of the Iranian Air Force Open Day

April 6, 2014 Winston Smith

Every year from Mar. 21 to Mar. 31 the regular Iranian Air Force holds an open house and exhibition similar to those one might see in North America or European nations. The Open Day of […]

Snowbirds display team cancels US shows due to budget cuts

February 11, 2014 Winston Smith

Canadian premier air demo team forced to cancel 2014 US air show schedule due to budget cuts. Following their American demo team counter parts, that were grounded last year due to the sequestration cuts, the […]

Canadian pilots successfully escape turboprop trainer through a “controlled ejection”

February 2, 2014 Winston Smith

Two pilots had to abandon a turboprop training aircraft when they determined it would not be safe to attempt a controlled landing. On Jan. 24, the crew of a Royal Canadian Air Force’s CT-156 Harvard […]

Iran’s S-300 air defense systems procurement saga

January 21, 2014 Winston Smith

The Iranian regime is once again trying to procure the Russian made S-300 air defense missiles, even after they had claimed that their Islamic revolutionary engineers could manufacture the S-300 system in Iran without any […]

Iran’s mysterious military plane crashes that amount to “mass purges”

January 7, 2014 Winston Smith

On Jan. 5, 1995 the entire senior commanders of the regular Iranian Air Force (HQ’s general staff) were killed in a suspicious plane crash near the city of Isfahan. Among the dead were several generals […]