Year 2016 in review through The Aviationist’s Top 5 articles
The five top stories of The Aviationist provide the readers the opportunity to virtually review the year that is coming to an end. Ordered by pageviews, the following 5 posts…
You can track U.S. Navy private contractor dogfights online
Flightradar24 lets you track ATAC's fleet of private contractor aggressors that fly out of NAS Point Mugu and NAS Fallon. Whilst most of the interesting aircraft (namely fighters and attack…
Last December a U.S. Air Force B-52 tested the AGM-86B nuclear-capable air-launched cruise missile over Utah
The AGM-86B nuclear-capable air-launched cruise missile was tested by the Air Force Global Strike Command’s 2nd Bomb Wing and Air Combat Command’s 49th Test and Evaluation Squadron recently. The U.S.…
U.S. B-1, B-52 bombers acted as non-traditional ISR platforms during a big drug-interdiction operation
For one week U.S. Air Force's Southern Command undertook a surge of its operations against the trafficking of illicit drugs into the United States, using bombers flying as NTISR (non-traditional…
Many U.S. pilots wore a traditional red “Santa” hat while flying over Iraq on Christmas Day.
U.S. F-16 pilots flying on Dec. 25, celebrated Christmas Day wearing a Santa Hat. It's probably a tradition, still you won't find too many pictures of fighter pilots wearing a…
Check out the first 360° video filmed by a camera attached to the vertical stabilizer of the MiG-29 Fulcrum flying to the edge of space
This is the first time a 360° camera has been attached to the outside of a fighter jet flying at supersonic speed. The clip below was shot by famous aviation…
