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These are the best (air-to-air) pictures of the Discovery mounted atop NASA's Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft

The following pictures were published today on the U.S. Air Force Westover Air Reserve Base Facebook page. They show the Space Shuttle Discovery mounted atop NASA Shuttle Carrier Aircraft SCA…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
May 14, 2012
Iran

‘Operation Delawar’: When An Entire U.S. Army Airborne Brigade, Two F-100 Squadrons Deployed To Iran

In 1964, the U.S. and Iranian military "learned how to work together as a combined joint team involved in a common enterprise". "Operation Delawar" is an episode of The Big…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
May 14, 2012
Libyan Uprising

Libya: NATO must acknowledge and compesate 72 civilian victims of potentially unlawful air strikes, Human Rights Watch says

Last year’s Libya Air War saw the coalition of NATO and non-NATO members, operating within Operation Unified Protector, dropping some 3,644 LGBs, 2,844 GPS-guided, 1,150 precision-guided direct-fire weapons, to enforce…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
May 14, 2012
China

[Updated] Photo: Second China’s J-20 stealth fighter prototype (almost) makes maiden flight

On May 14, 2012, the second prototype of the J-20 Mighty Dragon, serialled "2002", performed a high-speed taxi at Chengdu. Once again the images of the first flight were immediately…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
May 14, 2012
Military Aviation

Piper 28 intercepted by F-16s in Air Force One airspace violation: a couple of lessons to be learned

The Los Angeles Times has run a report that two F-16s were scrambled after a Piper 28 aircraft violated airspace restrictions which were in place due to President Obama being…

Richard Clements Richard Clements
May 13, 2012

As we wait for the sequel featuring the F-35, let's celebrate Top Gun Day with a funny video

Top Gun was released on May 12, 1986 (at least in NYC). It's by far the most famous (and in my honest opinion, still one of the best) Hollywood movie…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
May 13, 2012
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