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December 3, 2023 New Photos Show P-8A Being Prepared For Extraction From The Waters Of Kaneohe Bay Aviation Safety / Air Crashes
December 2, 2023 F-35C Sporting A Mirror-Like Coating Spotted On USS Abraham Lincoln F-35
December 2, 2023 Collings Foundation Ends Wings of Freedom WWII Aircraft Tours Aviation
December 1, 2023 Watch This: Russian Lancet Attack Drone Strikes Ukrainian Su-25 Decoy Troubled Areas
December 1, 2023 Canada Selects P-8 Poseidon As CP-140 Aurora Replacement Military Aviation

A U.S. Navy F/A-18C Hornet Has Been Painted In Russian Su-30SM Flanker-style Color Scheme

February 12, 2019 David Cenciotti

A “Legacy Hornet” with the NAWDC (Naval Aviation Warfighting Development Center) sports a paint job clearly inspired by the Russian Su-30SM multirole Flanker-derivative. As already explained, although the U.S. Navy has retired its last operational […]

F-35C first flight (and heat and noise concerns…)

June 14, 2010 David Cenciotti

On Jun. 6, 2010, piloted by Lockheed Martin Test Pilot Jeff Knowles’, a retired Naval Aviator and test pilot who flew F-14As and F-14Ds operationally’ and who was also chief test pilot on the F-117 […]