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Up Close And Personal With The F-35s Securing The NATO Skies Over Iceland F-35
Watch This Gusty Gunship Turn a Military Parade into a Real-Life Benny Hill Skit Helicopters
UK’s F-35Bs Land On HMS Queen Elizabeth Aircraft Carrier For The First Time F-35
Polish MoD Adopts a New Technical Modernization Plan – Air Domain Focus. F-35 Top Priority. F-35
Canadian Forces Snowbird 5 Crashes at Atlanta Air Show, Pilot Ejects Safely. Aviation Safety / Air Crashes
U.S. Navy Hornets And The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds Steal The Scene At NAS Oceana Air Show Airshows

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

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

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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 […]