‘I went from flying a C-17 (heads up display, fly by wire, glass cockpit) to a 737 Next Gen (glass cockpit) and felt like I went back in time about…
Civil
The CH-53K King Stallion heavy lift helicopter has entered full-rate production and its deployment phase The CH-53K King Stallion heavy lift helicopter has entered Full Rate Production (FRP) and its…
Cold War
RAF didn’t buy the Tomcat despite the F-14 being the only aircraft meeting UK’s defense needs.
The possibility of acquiring an RAF F-14 Tomcat was considered. Purchasing used models from the US Navy or possibly Iran could have been one way to reduce the bill The…
Carriers
Iran’s First Aircraft Carrier is under construction (It will be a Drone Aircraft Carrier obtained from Converted Merchant Ship and it’s expected To Be Launched In 2023)
Iran’s sectarian naval force is converting a former merchant container ship into a drone aircraft carrier in a dry dock near the entrance to the Persian Gulf Iran’s sectarian naval…
The main image in this post, taken at Andrews Air Force Base at an Air Show in May 1984, shows the SR-71 Blackbird #960 right afterburner blowing apart The post’s…
Helicopters
Lockheed Martin Sikorsky and Boeing filed a protest with GAO over the FLRAA contract awarded to Bell V-280 Valor
The Bell V-280 has beaten the Sikorsky Defiant X to the US Army’s FLRAA program Lockheed Martin Sikorsky and Boeing are challenging the US Army’s decision on the Future Long-Range…
History
Legendary German ace Adolf Galland tells his last combat mission, and a P-47 pilot remembers the dogfight in which he shot Galland down
‘A hail of fire enveloped me. I could hardly hold her in the air. I had only one wish: to get out of this ‘crate’ which now apparently was only…
Cold War
The SR-71 Blackbird crew, who flew a mission to the North Pole the night before Christmas in order to spy on the Soviets
‘The next morning as the family sat around the table having breakfast before school, I thought to myself, no one would believe where I was last night, the North Pole…
Carriers
Chinese Liaoning carrier strike group conducts exercise simulating attacks on Japan’s Nansei Islands
A Chinese carrier strike group involving the aircraft carrier Liaoning and Type 055 missile destroyers has been conducting drills that simulate attacks on Japan’s Nansei Islands since Dec. 16, 2022…
‘Yes, the A-4 Skyhawk was agile. However, it takes more than agility to make a good fighter,’ John Chesire, former US Naval Aviator and TOPGUN graduate 2,960 A-4 Skyhawk aircraft…