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The crazy story of the Nigerian Air Force C-130H Hercules’s flight to Cambridge in 2011

The Nigerian C-130H-30 that had arrived at Cambridge in August 2011, was eventually air tested. Here is its weird story. On Apr. 16, Nigerian Air Force C-130H-30, registration NAF918, conducted…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
April 22, 2014
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[Photo] 24 U.S. Apache attack helicopters perform mass landing in South Korea

A horde of AH-64 Apache: that's a show of force! The image in this post shows 24 AH-64D Longbow Apache attack helicopters with the 4th Aerial Reconnaissance Battalion (Attack), 2nd…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
April 21, 2014
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Iran stages “massive” aerial parade with F-14, F-4, Mig-29 and several other warplanes

The traditional military parades at mausoleum of the Late Founder of Islamic Republic, Imam Khomeini, south of capital Tehran saw the flyover of several warplanes, including the legendary F-14 Tomcat.…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
April 20, 2014
Military Aviation

Royal Netherlands Air Force F-16 demo team’s inverted selfie

Once again a cool selfie taken from the cockpit of an F-16 Fighting Falcon. The latest example of self-portrait photo most probably taken with a GoPro camera from the cockpit…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
April 19, 2014
Helicopters

Another insane Russian helicopter low altitude flyby

A Russian combat helicopter performs an impressive, quite dangerous, low pass. Few days ago, we published an article about the fully armed Ukrainian Air Force Mig-29 performing an impressive and…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
April 18, 2014
Military Aviation

B-2 Spirit or new Mysterious Stealth Plane? New image of triangular shaped plane emerges

A new image taken in February seems to show the same mysterious plane photographed over Texas last month. On Mar. 10, 2014 Steve Douglass and Dean Muskett took the famous…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
April 17, 2014
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