Renascent Libyan Air Force strikes smuggler camps near the border with Chad and Sudan
According to the Libyan Herald, on Dec. 18, Libyan airforce jets hit a camp possibly used by suspected smugglers located close to the border with Chad and Sudan, not far…
Photo: U.S. Air Force plane prepares for take off under giant double rainbow on Dec. 21 “Doomsday”
Taken on the day of the alleged Mayan Apocalypse Dec. 21, 2012, the following cool photo shows pilots preparing the cockpit of a U.S. Air Force T-38 Talon jet at…
Aerial view of Naval Station Norfolk shows the U.S. has not learned much from Pearl Harbor
The photographs in this post, just released by the U.S. Naval Air Forces Facebook page, are impressive for a lot of reasons. First, they provide what we could call an…
Photo: F-35B hovering in the darkness as seen through the Night Vision Goggles
The following awesome pictures show the F-35B STOVL (Short Take Off Vertical Landing) aircraft BF-4 hovering in the darkness during a night test flight at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland, on…
23 tanks destroyed in one day: the A-10 Warthog in action
Hawg vs Iraqi tanks during ODS. Without the A-10A Thunderbolt II attack planes, allied forces would have suffered a far higher cost in terms of lives during the ground phase…
Curious: Full scale F-35 mock-up gets a celebratory 4.6 meters in diameter Santa hat for Christmas
The following pictures where sent to The Aviationist by Endre Lunde, who is the Communications Advisor for the F-35 Program Office at the Norwegian Ministry of Defence. They show a…
