On Oct. 2, 2019, the U.S. Navy marked the end of an era when last F/A-18C performed its official final active-duty flight at Naval Air Station Oceana, Virginia, escorted by three F/A-18F Super Hornets. Originally designed for the U.S. Air Force, the F/A-18 served for 36 years. The fighter was …
Read More »Top Gun: “Maverick” Filmed In 6K Is Using “Never-Before-Seen” Technology
It’s been 34 years since Top Gun came out, and in that time moviemaking technology has improved significantly. In a recent interview Actor Jon Hamm reveals the details about that Top Gun: “Maverick”. Speaking to the actor at the world premiere for Amazon’s Good Omens, Collider’s Steve Weintraub got some …
Read More »Netherlands To Buy Nine More F-35 Lightning II Jets For $1.1 Billion
Netherlands plans to buy 9 additional Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightning II fighters jets from the United States for an estimated €1 billion ($1.1 billion). The new acquisition of stealth jets will bring the total number of F-35s with the Royal Netherlands Air Force to 46. The agreement will include the …
Read More »Mexican Air Force Bell 206L LongRanger Helicopter Crashes in Tamazula Leaves Pilot Dead
The secretary of the National Defense (Sedena), Luis Crescencio Sandoval, confirmed the crash of a Bell 206 helicopter, registration 1679, of the Mexican Air Force in the municipality of Tamazula, Durango, in which the pilot was killed. The accident occurred shortly after 3:00 p.m. when they performed operations at a point …
Read More »“Big Mistake” To Shoot Down Our Own Mi-17 Chopper On Feb 27: IAF Chief
The shooting down of an Mi-17 V5 helicopter by the Indian Air Force (IAF) on February 27 was a “big mistake”, Air Chief Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria said today. Six IAF personnel and a civilian were killed in the incident, which took place on a day Indian and Pakistani fighter …
Read More »Russia Test-Fire New S-500 Missile Defence System In Syria?
Russian media reported that the Russian army had recently completed a series of tests on its new S-500 air defense system. Former deputy head of the Air Force for the joint CIS integrated air defense system Lt. Gen. Aitech Bizhev explained that Syria was chosen for testing the equipment in …
Read More »Can Turkey Be Readmitted To F-35 Lightning II Fighter Jets Programme?
As we have reported earlier according to multiple Turkish media outlets the U.S. had offered Turkey a new deal on F-35 fighter jets, boosting optimism that strained relations between the two NATO allies were making progress. U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham, a close ally of President Donald Trump, said this week …
Read More »Lockheed Martin To Manufacture F-16 Fighter Jets Wings In India
According to Reuters report US-based aerospace company Lockheed Martin’s decision to build F16 wings for their global supply to the world from India Vivek Lall, vice president of Strategy and Business Development for Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, said the wings of all future F-16s that the company will sell worldwide will …
Read More »RDAF Sent Special Colored F-16s To Intercept A Russian Il-20M Spyplane
On September 30, 2019, two Royal Danish Air Force (RDAF) F-16s were scrambled from Fighter Wing Skrydstrup to intercept and identify a Russian Air Force Il-20M Coot-A aircraft flying in international airspace off Denmark. The exciting thing about the intercept was the fact that one of the two F-16s in …
Read More »Woman Forced To Sit In Her Own Urine For 7 Hours After Cabin Crew Refused Toilet Access
26-year-old Air Canada passenger PASSENGER claimed she was forced to sit in a seat soaked in her own urine during a seven-hour flight after the crew refused to let her use the bathroom. Irish woman was traveling from Dublin to Colombia with Air Canada last month when it happened. She …
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