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Military Aviation

The Story Of The Soviet Pilot Who Defected To Japan With A Secretive MiG-25 Foxbat

OTD in 1976, Viktor Belenko, "stole" a MiG-25 and landed in Japan. The then Lieutenant Belenko was a pilot with the 513th Fighter Regiment, 11th Air Army, based in Chuguyevka,…

Jacek Siminski Jacek Siminski
September 6, 2016
Military Aviation

Cool air-to-air footage brings you up close and personal with the new dual-role M-346FT

An awesome new clip shows the new multi-role variant of the M-346 trainer. Unveiled for the first time at Farnborough International Air Show in July 2016, the M-346FT (Fighter Trainer)…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
September 6, 2016
Military Aviation

Check out this crazy cool video of a B-1B Lancer launching from RAF Fairford

Watch this stunning footage of a B-1B bomber deployed to Europe thundering out of RAF Fairford for an Ample Strike familiarization flight. Two B-1B Lancer bombers belonging to the 7th…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
September 5, 2016
Helicopters

Watch a Chinook lift a stuck Apache helicopter from a rice field in Texas

A massive CH-47 Chinook retrieved a smaller AH-64D Apache attack helicopter near Houston Texas. On Aug. 30, a Texas Army National Guard AH-64D Apache, was forced to perform an emergency…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
September 5, 2016
Military Aviation

These awesome photos from KADEX 2016 show Kazakhstan Air Force combat aircraft as you’ve never seen them before

Su-30SMs, Su-27M-2s, Yak-130, Pterodactyl-1 and much more exotic stuff you don't happen to see too often. Held between Jun. 2 and 5, 2016, the Kazakhstan Defence Expo (KADEX 2016) provided an…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
September 2, 2016
Aviation

Take a look at these photographs of the rare NASA DC-8 Airborne Laboratory visiting Lajes during global-scale sampling mission

A rare beauty flew into Lajes airfield, Azores. Taking part in the Atmospheric Tomography Mission (ATom-1) to study the impact of human-produced air pollution on greenhouse gases and on chemically…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
September 1, 2016
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