Cockpit view: F/A-18F Super Hornet Refuels from another Super Hornet
This video provides a different point of view: this is what refueling your F/A-18F Super Hornet from another "Rhino" (as the SH is dubbed in the naval aviation "slang") looks…
The "USS Enterprise fired upon enemy fighters" story: why attacking a U.S. aircraft carrier with four (or more) combat planes would be a suicide.
On Jun. 8, the news of a presumed attack on USS Enterprise spread on Twitter. It all had started few days earlier, with someone who had heard from a "credible…
Anybody able to ID the new pod carried by a British Typhoon at RAF Coningsby?
Update Jun. 10, 2012 15.30 GMT The following image was taken by The Aviationist's contributor Alessandro Fucito at RAF Coningsby on May 28. It shows a local Eurofighter Typhoon FGR4…
Oriental Turboprops: U.S. C-130 Hercules cargo planes flying near Mt. Fuji, Japan
The following cool image shows a formation of U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules cargo aircraft flying in formation on Jun. 5, 2012, as they return from the "Samurai Surge" training…
Phantom Phorever!!! Wittmund hosts last F-4 Spotter Day. For real Phantom Phreaks.
On Jun. 5, Wittmund airbase, home of Germany's last operational F-4 Phantoms the Jadgdeschwader (JG) 71 "Richthofen", hosted a Spotter Day. Possibly the last one before the entire fleet is eventually…
Did you know small drones have an arrestor hook? Photos show U.S. Army RQ-7 Shadow ‘bot performing arrested landing in Afghanistan.
Made available by the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, the following pictures not only provide some behind the scenes images of the RQ-7 Shadow operations (at Forward Operating…
