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Military Aviation

An Airbus MRTT Test Aircraft Has Carried Out The World’s First Ever Fully Automatic Refuelling Contacts

The A330 MRTT will be equipped the first automatic aerial refueling with a boom system. An Airbus MRTT test aircraft has successfully completed the first ever fully Automatic Air-to-Air Refuelling…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
April 17, 2020
Aviation Safety

Awesome HD Video Filmed Aboard MiG-15UTI Flying Ultra-Low Over Mojave Desert (as Hydraulic Failure Kicks In)

Amazing footage brings us back to the age of the "Red Eagles" of Project CONSTANT PEG. Almost one year ago, we reported about a two-seat MiG-15UTI jet that was spotted…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
April 16, 2020
Libya

On This Day In 1986: Operation El Dorado Canyon, The F-111’s Shining Moment.

USAF, Navy and Marines Struck Back at Qaddafi’s Libya for Terrorist Bombing. Their swing-wings straining to lift a heavy bomb load, the afterburner thunder from an air-armada of twenty-four F-111Fs…

Tom Demerly Tom Demerly
April 15, 2020
Military Aviation

The F-15 Eagle’s Most Advanced Production Version Performs Its First Flight

The F-15QA is the first of 36 aircraft developed specifically for Qatar. Boeing announced that the F-15QA, the most advanced version of the F-15 Eagle, performed successfully its first flight…

Stefano D'Urso Stefano D'Urso
April 14, 2020
North Korea

Rare photo of North Korean MiG-29 Firing an R-60 AAM Emerges After Kim Jong Un’s Visit to Sunchon Airbase

The visit also provided a rare public appearance of the weapons used by North Korean aircraft. Last week, the North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un visited an unspecified “pursuit assault plane…

Stefano D'Urso Stefano D'Urso
April 14, 2020
Aviation

The Antonov An-225 Mriya Lands in Warsaw, Poland, Carrying COVID-19 Relief from China

The world's heaviest aircraft ever built is flying Covid-19 relief missions these days. The only built Antonov An-225 Mriya (NATO reporting name: Cossack) strategic airlift cargo aircraft landed in Warsaw…

Jacek Siminski Jacek Siminski
April 14, 2020
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