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Military Aviation

Here are some stunning photos of Israeli Air Force’s largest ever international exercise

Blue Flag exercise in Israel gathered combat planes from Poland, Greece and U.S. Blue Flag 2015 is the biggest aerial exercise in the history of the Israeli Air Force. Kicked…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
October 30, 2015
Aircraft Carriers

Two Russian TU-142 Bears fly close to USS Reagan that launches four (armed) Hornets in response

Interesting close encounter off the Korean peninsula. On Oct. 27, USS Ronald Regan, sailing in international waters east of the Korean peninsula, had to scramble four F/A-18 Hornets after two…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
October 29, 2015
Military Aviation

An interesting cockpit video shows what it’s like to fly an A-10 during a Sandy mission

Join this Hog pilot while he is performing air cover for a CSAR sortie. Here’s an interesting footage filmed from inside the cockpit of an A-10. It shows the pilot's…

Dario Leone Dario Leone
October 29, 2015
Aviation Safety

Impressive video shows a B-36 strategic bomber buzzing Forth Worth roofs

Watch a gigantic Convair B-36 performing a super low flyby over Forth Worth neighbourhood. The following footage consists of two clips: the first one shows a standard Peacemaker take off…

Dario Leone Dario Leone
October 28, 2015
Russia

In what is probably a first, RT streamed live from Latakia as Russian jets launched war missions

RT streamed real-time the operations of the Russian Su-34s at Latakia airbase. Announced by a Tweet, for little less than 40 minutes, Ruptly (the video news agency belonging to RT)…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
October 28, 2015
Airshows

Awesome photo shows Blue Angels #5 pulling high gs during demo display

This is one of those pictures that don’t need much words. Taken on Oct 18, the photo in this post features Lt. Cmdr. Mark Tedrow, Blue Angels #5 and Lead Solo…

Dario Leone Dario Leone
October 27, 2015
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