NATO Patriot missiles start arriving in Turkey
NATO has agreed to deploy Patriot missiles on the Turkish - Syrian border to protect Turkey from cross border attacks from the Syrian side. January 4 saw U.S forces start…
Navy’s F-35C gets VFA-101 high-visibility markings
In anticipation of its future assignment to the VFA-101 "Grim Reapers" at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, the F-35C CF-6 has received a cool high-visibility color scheme. The Grim Repers…
This video shows that weapons release from military planes can go horribly wrong
If you thought that just dropping an inert weapon during a test to validate a specific platform or procedure was an easy and safe task, you were wrong. The following…
Networking From on High: Behind the Scenes of NASA’s Spooky WB-57 Jet
At the beginning of December 2012, The Aviationist profiled the return of a NASA B-57 Canberra aircraft from operations in Afghanistan. In addition to supporting academic and high-altitude meteorological research,…
Polish and Greek combat planes conduct joint training
During the first half of December 2012, Greece and Poland conducted a joint air training exercise in western Greece. The drills took place from Dec. 3 to 14 at Araxos…
Eurocopter’s EC225 Super Puma fleet for offshore operations grounded by main gearbox defects
In May 2012 The Aviationist covered the story of the Eurocopter EC225 Super Puma that experienced an emergency whilst ferrying oil workers from Aberdeen (Scotland) to the Maersk Resilliant and…
