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Or, How to Get Your Press Credentials Revoked in One Easy Lesson… Every aviation journalist gets excited about a big story, especially when they get to bring us hot news from live and on location. [...]

In April 2016 we visited 14th Flying Training Wing at Columbus AFB, Mississippi. Here’s our report. In an era when unmanned flying is becoming a normality, the U.S. Air Force is expanding its pilot training [...]

The United States intensified its ISR (Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance) presence in the Black Sea after Kerch Strait incident. Here’s an analysis. Following the incident in the Kerch Strait near Crimea in the morning of Nov. [...]

Planes from eight different squadrons based out of Oceana, Virginia, deployed to Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base to take part in the historic 21-jet Bush Memorial Flyover. The U.S. Navy paid tribute [...]

Bizarre Photo Shows What Appears To Be A Model Of An Advanced Chinese Stealth Jet Allegedly at Georgia Airfield. File this under, “Too Weird to Believe, Too Bizarre Not to Report”. Late Wednesday, December 5, [...]

Developing Story: Two Aircraft Reported Down, Seven Aircrew Reported Missing. Reports on Twitter indicate that two U.S. military aircraft have crashed during a midair refueling operation off Iwakuni, Japan. Early reports that surfaced on Twitter [...]

Thirty U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornets Fly to Texas In Preparation for Unprecedented 21-Jet Missing Man Formation. The U.S. Navy has dispatched thirty F/A-18 Hornet and Super Hornet jets from various units to participate in [...]

New Air Force F-35A Team Will Go “Full Demo” To Showcase F-35A Capabilities. The USAF Air Combat Command announced on Dec. 4, that the 2019 F-35A Lightning II Demonstration Team will now perform a solo [...]

The presidential aircraft was put on sale by Andrés Manuel López Obrador, near the end of his first day as president of Mexico. The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner TP-01 “José María Morelos y Pavón” of the [...]

The Aeronautica Militare has declared its F-35s operational. On Nov. 30, 2018, during the media day of TLP 18-4 currently underway at Amendola, in southeastern Italy (the first iteration of the course to integrate 4th [...]

Luftwaffe’s Airbus 340, called “Konrad Adenauer”, carrying the German delegation to the G20 summit, suffered technical problems about an hour into the 15-hour trip to Buenos Aires. Angela Merkel is currently travelling to the G20 [...]

RAF Marham F-35B Lightnings are taking part in their first operational exercise at RAF Lakenheath as they continue their progression to initial operating capability. U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagles from the 48th Fighter Wing, [...]

An interesting Cold War episode worth 4 medals. During the 1980s, the U.S. flew regular SR-71 Blackbird aircraft reconnaissance missions in international waters over the Barents Sea and the Baltic Sea, the latter known as [...]

An interesting “close encounter” in the Black Sea was captured on video. During the filming of a documentary, UK’s Channel 5 captured interesting footage of a Royal Navy Type 45 destroyer “buzzed” by Russian fighter [...]

Commonly known as Battlefield Airborne Communications Node, or BACN, the E-11A is a U.S. Air Force aircraft that provides unparalleled communications capabilities to coalition forces on the ground and aircraft in the air. “There is [...]

Moscow has blocked passage through the Kerch Strait, between Crimea and mainland Russia, after three Ukrainian navy ships made what the Russian authorities have called a violation of Russian territorial waters. Russia has stopped all [...]

More than 30 Douglas C-47 Skytrain and Dakota  will retrace their flights from Britain to the original D-Day Drop Zones in Normandy, France. Two thirds will be coming from North America. On Jun. 5 2019, [...]

Here are a couple of interesting clips showing what happened after the “Elephant Walk” of 35 F-35s that made the news a couple of days ago. 35x F-35A from the 388th and 419th Fighter Wing [...]

Three Times as Many Thumbs Down to “Wear My Medals on The Left” As Thumbs Up. On Nov. 6, 2018, the Australian War Memorial posted a music video on YouTube by the choral group, “Sisters in Arms” of the Australian military. Just like the well-intentioned viral Rebecca Black “Friday” video of 2011 that garnered a […]

It’s also the Second Crash for Reagan in One Month Following MH-60 Seahawk Crash Last Month. A two-seat U.S. Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet has crashed at sea while operating from the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76). The crash occurred at an unspecified location northeast of the Philippines on Monday, November 12, 2018. Reports indicate […]