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Drones

"Viper Drone": Boeing QF-16 aerial target for U.S. Air Force makes first flight

The Lockheed Martin F-16 is one of the most famous combat planes in the world. The 4500th example was delivered at the company Fort Worth production facility, in Texas, on…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
May 10, 2012
Military Aviation

"Aviation equivalent of Tutankhamun's Tomb" in Western Sahara: a perfectly preserved plane found 70 years after it went down

Polish oil company worker Jakub Perka was exploring a remote region of the Western Sahara desert in Egypt when he stumbled across a plane, later identified as a UK's Royal…

Richard Clements Richard Clements
May 10, 2012
Aviation

Don't worry, this weird plane with 5 engines, is just a flying test bed for a quite innovative FOD resistant engine

The following pictures show the Pratt & Whitney's Boeing 747SP flying test bed at the company's Mirabel Aerospace Centre, in Mirabel, Quebec, Canada, with a PW1217G engine flying on a…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
May 10, 2012
Aviation Safety

Whistleblower pilots who did not want to fly the F-22 now ready to resume flying the Raptor!

Here's another chapter of the F-22 oxygen problems saga. According to their attorney, Frederick M. Morgan Jr, who talked to The Daily press on May 9, the two F-22 pilots…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
May 10, 2012
Aviation

Boeing 747 mock-up used for Special Forces counter-terrorism training in Western Australia

The ambitious al-Qaida's affiliate in Yemen's "underwear bomb plot" to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner recently thwarted by CIA, has proved, once again, that civilian planes are still an attractive target for…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
May 10, 2012
Drones

First weapon designed to be dropped by gravity from a drone makes debut

Once used only to perform ISR (Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance), drones are getting new weapons day after day confirming a growing trend to arm current UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) in order…

Richard Clements Richard Clements
May 9, 2012
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