The Aviationist’s Top 5 stories of 2012
Here below you will find the Top 5 blog posts of year 2012. Actually, these are not the five articles that got most pageviews: in fact, among the most read…
Assad regime has turned combat planes into WMD-armed drones
According to Israel Hayom daily, the Mig-21 fighter jet flown by a defecting Syrian pilot to Jordan last June was found to have been modified by the Syrian Arab Air…
The special way U.S. Navy F-14 Tomcats wished Merry Christmas to sailors deployed at sea
Christmas is an ordinary day when you are embarked on an aircraft carrier for maritime security operations. Still, this doesn't mean there are no alternate ways to celebrate it, as…
Take a seat next to the B-52 heavy bomber’s Radar Navigator
The following video brings you on board a U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress during a mission from Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana. http://youtu.be/J9YcoYfqNh4 Anything related to the most iconic U.S.…
China’s new military transport plane exposed. And it looks like a C-17, An-70, A400M hybrid.
Posted by Alert5 today, the following image shows the first photographs of China's new four-engine military airlifter. The large military transport aircraft is allegedly designed Y-20 and, nose aside, its…
How a badly damaged C-17 Globemaster was saved and flown back from Afghanistan
On Jan. 23, 2012 a C-17A Globemaster III was involved in a landing incident at Forward Operating Base Shank, in Afghanistan during a combat airlift mission in support to Operation…
