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Spangdahlem’s 480th Fighter Squadron deployed to Monte Real Air Base earlier this year. And this is a video showing what they have done in Portugal. The “Warhawks” have been travelling quite a bit lately. As [...]

The 11th “Warbirds Over the Beach” air show not only featured a wonderful assemblage of aircraft from the Second World War, it had some truly rare planes, in the form of a JU-52, FW-190 and [...]

41 helicopters formed up across the runway at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar for a massive readiness exercise that celebrated also the 75th anniversary of D-Day. We have reported about several “Elephant Walk” exercises in [...]

The Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) has published a statement about the loss of a F-35A. According to the report, the pilot likely suffered spatial disorientation before he crashed. Would Auto-GCAS have helped? On Jun. [...]

U.S. Marine Corps and Hellenic Air Force aircraft have joined Italian Air Force F-35, T-346, Typhoon, CAEW and many other Italian assets involved in Joint Stars 2019. From May 13 to 31, 2019, dozens of [...]

The C-17 Globemaster III cargo aircraft were taking part in JFEX (Joint Forcible Entry Exercise). The images in this post were released by 3rd Wing Commander on Twitter. They show, from different angles (including from [...]

The 5th gen. jets, belonging to the 34th Fighter Squadron, arrived directly from the US F-35As belonging to the 34th Fighter Squadron “Rude Rams”, based at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, are participating in the [...]

The “Warthog” has the phenomenal ability to use unimproved surface landing strips. And Idaho ANG A-10 pilots regularly train to exploit it. A-10C Thunderbolt II from the 190th Fighter Squadron at Gowen Field, Idaho, have [...]

The recent crash of a South Dakota Air National Guard F-16 into a warehouse near March Air Reserve Base highlights once again the risk associated with Hydrazine leakes. As already reported, on May 16, 2019, [...]

Navy Beats Air Force with First Legacy Hornet in Su-57 Livery, Russia is Confused, Troll Party Ensues. Photos taken by an amateur aviation photographer in the U.S. emerged on Facebook early this week of a [...]

California Air Nation Guard Pilot Being Evaluated, Aircraft Was from South Dakota ANG. A U.S. Air National Guard F-16 Fighting Falcon crashed into a large warehouse building while attempting to land at March Reserve Air [...]

A quite rare variant of the Il-22 Coot-B was intercepted by the Royal Air Force Typhoon jets supporting NATO Baltic Air Policing. According to the UK Ministry of Defence, on May 14, 2019, two Typhoon [...]

Latest Aircraft Is Single Seat F/A-18E Super Hornet. Instagram user who wishes to remain anonymous managed to get a perfect photo of a second, previously unseen, single-seat U.S. Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet painted in the [...]

Private Aircraft  Photographed in Western U.S. by Tyler Hernandez, Shows Its Age. Ace aviation photographer Tyler Hernandez of Zone 5 Photography made a rare and exotic catch in one of the most noteworthy Western U.S. [...]

A series of tactical events were carried out at Pratica di Mare airbase to show the ability of the Italian military assets to be used for both military and civilian operations. “Dual use” is a [...]

Unusual Patch Was Pulled from Stores When Classified Project May Have Failed. If you’re a military aviation fan, chances are you have a few patches lying around in a collection somewhere. Many aviation fans have [...]

B-52s as well as F-15Cs and F-35As have conducted “deterrence missions” in the CENTCOM AOR recently. As already reported, four B-52 bombers deployed from Barksdale AFB, Lousiana, to Al Udeid, Qatar, as part of a [...]

Take a look at how the Super Hornet’s flight control surfaces move during approach. Earlier this month, our friend Ben Ramsay (UK Aviation Movies) visited Meiringen Air Base, in Switzerland, during the Super Hornet demonstration [...]

The unit, inactivated in September 2014 due to budget constraints imposed by sequestration, is going to “resurrect” and fly the 5th generation aircraft. On May 9, the U.S. Air Force announced the plan to reactivate [...]

The U.S. Air Force is positioning four B-52s to Qatar. And, for the very first time, at least one of the Stratofortress bombers could be tracked online as it deployed from Barksdale Air Force Base [...]