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October 14, 2019 Up Close And Personal With The F-35s Securing The NATO Skies Over Iceland F-35
October 10, 2019 Watch This Gusty Gunship Turn a Military Parade into a Real-Life Benny Hill Skit Helicopters
February 27, 2020 Cool Video of Russia’s Newly Upgraded Tu-160M Supersonic Bomber That Flew Earlier This Month. Russia
February 27, 2020 Spanish Air Force Display Team’s Soloist Has Crashed Into The Sea. Pilot Killed. Aviation Safety / Air Crashes
February 27, 2020 Thunderbirds Join Blue Angels in California for Winter Information Exchange. Airshows
February 26, 2020 Third Italian F-35B Goes To The Italian Air Force. And the Italian Navy Is Not Happy At All. Military Aviation
February 25, 2020 Let’s Have A Look At The U.S. F-22 Raptors Returning Home Earlier This Month From Short-Notice Deployment to Qatar Military Aviation

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Fighter Planes vs Racecars: same tech, same physical laws, same charm

November 11, 2011 David Cenciotti 3

Hands On Throttle And Stick, Variable Geometry Intakes, Movable Ailerons and Wings, Boundary Layer Control, etc. are only but few technologies common to Military Aviation and Formula One. Aerodynamics is also the same, even if […]

Is the F-35 stealth jet so advanced that it can be flown using one hand only? Picture raise question

November 10, 2011 David Cenciotti 2

Do you remember HOTAS (Hands On Throttle And Stick)? Ok, forget it. As the following Lockheed Martin picture shows, the F-35B, the (most costly) Short Take Off and Vertical Landing (STOVL) version of the Joint […]