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Houthi Rebels Claim To Have Shot Down Saudi Apache Gunship And Wing Loong UAV in Yemen.

An Apache attack helicopter and a MALE (Medium-Range Long-Endurance) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle have been reportedly downed over Yemen. Yemeni Houthi rebels have claimed the shooting down of an AH-64 Apache…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
December 2, 2019
Military Aviation

London Rocked By Sonic Boom Generated By RAF Typhoons Scrambled To Respond To Unresponsive Aircraft

Everything You Need To Know About The Supersonic Intercept And Sonic Boom That Rocked London At 04:16AM. On Dec. 1, 2019, at approx 0400z two Royal Air Force Typhoons on…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
December 1, 2019
Stealth Black Hawk

The Story Of The “Famous” Renderings Of The Secretive Stealth Black Hawk revealed by the Osama Bin Laden raid

Few hours after the raid that exposed the existence of a Stealth Black Hawk, The Aviationist published a sketch of how it could look like. Although it was a fruit…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
November 29, 2019
Military Aviation

We Look Inside Area 51’s “Black Mailbox”, Eat Pie at the Lil’ Ali’ Inn and Avoid the Alien Probe.

We Didn’t “Storm Area 51”, But We Learned There’s More Than UFO Lore Here. This place is big. So big you’ll be checking your map after you lose your cell…

Tom Demerly Tom Demerly
November 29, 2019
Military Aviation

The Secret Behind Success Of The World’s Fastest Aircraft: The Engine Nacelles Of The SR-71 Blackbird

The air inlets were the key factor that helped the J-58 engines to provide 32,000 pounds of thrust and allow the Blackbird to reach Mach 3.2. The Lockheed SR-71 “Blackbird”,…

Stefano D'Urso Stefano D'Urso
November 29, 2019
F-104

“Black Beauty”: One Of The Last (And Most Beautiful) Special Colored F-104 Starfighters Of The Italian Air Force

Many consider "Black Beauty" the coolest F-104 Starfighter in special color scheme of the Aeronautica Militare. Of the 15 nations that flew the 2,580 Lockheed F-104 Starfighter jets produced, Italy…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
November 29, 2019
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