Check Out These Photos Of The Blue Angels Flying The Diamond Formation With The Super Hornets For The First Time
The Blue Angels have started preparing the 2021 flight demonstration season with the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet. As we already reported, the Blue Angels, the U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Team, flew…
B-1 Lancer Bomber Flies With JASSM Stealthy Missile During External Weapons Carriage Capabilities Demo
A B-1B Lancer flew for the first time with an inert JASSM (Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile) under an external pylon during a demo at Edwards AFB. On Nov. 20, 2020,…
An F-35A Dropped An Inert B61-12 Nuclear Bomb During Supersonic Flight For The First Time
The test with the B61-12 is also the first F-35A Dual Capable Aircraft test to be shown in an unclassified video. Just a few months after the first photos of…
The Japan Air Self-Defense Force Retires Its Last F-4EJ Phantom Fighters After 48 Years Of Service
After retiring its last F-4EJ Phantom fighters, 301 Hikotai will now relocate to Misawa AB to become the second F-35A unit of the JASDF. The Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF)…
Farewell Huey! The Italian Army Begins To Slowly Retire The AB-205 After More Than 50 Years Of Service
The 5th Army Aviation Regiment is the first unit to phase out its AB-205 Huey helicopters after completing the transition to the NH-90. The 5th Army Aviation Regiment of the…
CMV-22B Osprey Makes First Ever Landings And Take-Offs From An Aircraft Carrier
For first time, a new CMV-22B Osprey carried out landings and take-offs from the flight deck of an aircraft carrier. On Nov. 22, 2020, a CMV-22B tilt-rotor aircraft of the…