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April 23, 2019 This Awesome Video Shows A C-17 Globemaster III Flying At Low Altitude Through the Star Wars Canyon Military Aviation
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Modern fighters: why so similar?

January 10, 2011 David Cenciotti 2

Let’s make it simple. According to aircraft designers (often accused of copying from other projects….), modern fighters are similar one another because computers model more or less in the same way the shapes required to […]

Is the Chengdu J-20 an F-22/YF-23/Mig-31 hybrid?

January 5, 2011 David Cenciotti 4

When I first saw the leaked images of the Chinese Chengdu J-20 a fifth generation stealth aircraft prototype developed by Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group for the People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) I could not […]