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Military Aviation

Breathtaking photo as F/A-18E Super Hornet pilot seemingly activates “Hyperspace Drive”

An amazing shot from a Super Hornet fighter pilot This photo was taken by an F/A-18E Super Hornet pilot with the U.S. Navy's Strike-Fighter Squadron 27 (VFA-27) "Royal Maces" during…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
August 12, 2014
Military Aviation

Exercise Anatolian Eagle 2014-2: Turkey, Jordan, Qatar, Spain and the UK train for real combat ops

Attracting an increasing number of foreign air arms, Anatolian Eagle has become a high-tech exercise that gives participating units the opportunity to assess their capabilities and readiness for war, to…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
August 11, 2014
Aircraft Carriers

Pilots explain how Navy’s F-4 Phantoms intercepted Soviet Bombers near U.S. aircraft carriers

Developed as interceptor to protect U.S. Navy's Carrier Battle Groups (CVBG), the F-4 had frequent close encounters with Soviet Tu-95 and Tu-16 bombers near aircraft carriers around the world U.S.…

Dario Leone Dario Leone
August 11, 2014
Military Aviation

F-16 pilot takes selfie during Arctic surveillance training mission over Greenland

Royal Danish Air Force F-16 planes have deployed to Greenland to undertake an Arctic mission.  Fortunately, Danish pilots took their GoPro cameras aboard. According to the Flyvevåbnet (Royal Danish Air…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
August 10, 2014
Aviation

With U.S. airstrikes in progress airspace over Iraq has been closed to civilian flights

One of the busiest commercial routes went over Iraq. Until it was closed because of the U.S. air strikes against ISIS positions. Even if the situation in Iraq was already…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
August 9, 2014
Aircraft Carriers

[Photo] Aboard USS George H.W. Bush: the aircraft carrier that launched first airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq

These are some action shots from the only photographer to have been on USS George H.W. Bush out in the Gulf few days before it launched the first airstrikes against…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
August 8, 2014
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