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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 21, 2020 Norwegian F-35s Have Deployed To Iceland for NATO Air Policing Mission F-35
February 21, 2020 Multiple Aerial Refuelings From KC-130J Tankers Keep HH-101A “Caesar” Helicopters In Flight For +6 Hours Helicopters
February 19, 2020 This Outstanding Video Will Bring You Up Close And Personal With World’s Last RF-4E in “Blue Offshore” Camouflage Military Aviation
February 18, 2020 Italian Air Force Special Colored S.208Ms Celebrate 100th Anniversary Of Historic First Rome – Tokyo Flight Italian Air Force
February 17, 2020 A Uniquely American Moment: Photographer Captures Air Force One at Daytona 500 In These Stunning Images Military Aviation

Italian Air Force Special Colored S.208Ms Celebrate 100th Anniversary Of Historic First Rome – Tokyo Flight

February 18, 2020 David Cenciotti 0

In 1920, two SVA 9 biplanes flew from Rome to Tokyo, covering 18,000 km in 106 days: an incredible achievement considered that the record flight was conducted with aircraft made in wood, with an open […]

Climb Into The Cockpit Of An A-6 Flying A Show Of Force Mission To Protect A UN C-130 From Somali Warlords in 1992

September 11, 2019 David Cenciotti 0

Former Intruder Pilot Recalls Flying Combat Missions over Somalia During Operation Restore Hope. Manned by a crew of two, pilot and bombardier-navigator, seated side by side, the A-6 Intruder would never have won a beauty […]

You Really Have To Watch This 1980 Documentary About Czechoslovak Air Force’s Highway Operations

July 10, 2019 David Cenciotti 0

Awesome footage straight from the Cold War. After WWII and through the Cold War some countries (especially in eastern Europe) developed the concept of highway strips: a section of a highway, motorway or other form […]

Watch the C-47 that Took Part In D-Day Return to Normandy to Fly with U.S Air Force C-130 on 75th Anniversary

June 26, 2019 Mike Killian 0

D-Day Dakota flies again over Normandy. The first week of June across Normandy, France was all about paying tribute to the 75th anniversary of D-Day and remembering those who gave all at a critical turning […]

75 Years Ago Today: Invasion Stripes Became the Markings That Saved Allied Lives.

June 6, 2019 Tom Demerly 0

Markings Continue in Homage of The Greatest Generation in the Greatest Invasion. As special commemorative events in Normandy, France and around the world are held to observe the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion, both […]