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October 14, 2019 Up Close And Personal With The F-35s Securing The NATO Skies Over Iceland F-35
October 10, 2019 Watch This Gusty Gunship Turn a Military Parade into a Real-Life Benny Hill Skit Helicopters
February 27, 2020 Spanish Air Force Display Team’s Soloist Has Crashed Into The Sea. Pilot Killed. Aviation Safety / Air Crashes
February 27, 2020 Thunderbirds Join Blue Angels in California for Winter Information Exchange. Airshows
February 26, 2020 Third Italian F-35B Goes To The Italian Air Force. And the Italian Navy Is Not Happy At All. Military Aviation
February 25, 2020 Let’s Have A Look At The U.S. F-22 Raptors Returning Home Earlier This Month From Short-Notice Deployment to Qatar Military Aviation
February 24, 2020 New Matchbox “Top Gun: Maverick”-themed line Reveals Shape Of Movie’s Mysterious Hypersonic Aircraft Maritime Security

U.S. Flight from Wuhan Evacuates Americans to Quarantine at March Air Reserve Base, California.

January 30, 2020 Tom Demerly 0

Precautionary Quarantine Underway for U.S. Evacuees as Chinese Military Mobilizes. In response to concern over the spread of the coronavirus, a U.S. based Boeing 747-400 owned by contract air freight service Kalitta Airlines of Willow […]

U.S. Navy Now Jamming GPS Over Six States and 125,000 Square Miles.

January 23, 2020 Tom Demerly 0

FAA Issues Advisory for Pilots: Large Military GPS Jamming Exercise in Southeast. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued a flight advisory for January 16-24 warning civilian and commercial pilots that, “GPS testing is […]

Go Full Screen When You Watch This Breathtaking Video of The Airbus Perlan II.

October 22, 2019 Tom Demerly 0

Incredible Video of Record-Breaking High Altitude Glider Will Take Your Breath Away. You may not have heard of the remarkable Airbus Perlan II ultra-high altitude glider and its impressive series of ultra-high altitude records for […]

Watch Starfighters’ TF-104 Intercept and Escort “One More Orbit” G650ER World Record Flight To NASA’s KSC

August 23, 2019 David Cenciotti 0

65 years since its first flight, the F-104s of the NASA’s KSC-based “Starfighters” continue to carry out a variety of missions for government and commercial customers. Starfighters operates the world’s only fleet of flight-ready F-104s. […]

Virgin Orbit Stages First Launch Vehicle Test Drop from Boeing 747 Over Mojave

July 11, 2019 Tom Demerly 0

Test Drop of LauncherOne Unpowered Test Rocket Verifies Separation Technology. Sir Richard Branson’s company, Virgin Orbit, conducted a successful test drop of an unpowered LauncherOne rocket on Wednesday, July 10, over California’s Mojave Desert near […]