The special outfitted Embraer Phenom 300E camera ship used to film Top Gun: Maverick – Credits: Embraer Top Gun: Maverick is loaded with IMAX-worthy high-speed footage of fighter jets dogfighting, dodging missiles, chasing through canyons, and zooming over snow-capped mountaintops. The movie’s action-packed aerial cinematography was filmed by a Melbourne-manufactured …

Two MH-60S Knighthawk helicopters assigned to the “Black Knights” of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 4, stationed in San Diego, fly in formation over Northern California to Naval Air Station Fallon. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Shannon Renfroe/Released) A U.S. Navy Sikorsky MH-60S Knighthawk, operated by HSC-3, …

MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft, operated by aircrews with the United States Marine Corps, stop for refueling at an airfield in the 28th Expeditionary Combat Aviation Brigade’s area of operations. (U.S. Army photo by Cpl. John Z. Mateja) A USMC Bell-Boeing MV-22B Osprey, operated by 3rd MAW, crashed near Glamis, Imperial …

A plane crashed into a residential building in Xiangyang, a city in central China’s Hubei Province on Thursday, and the pilot of the crashed plane ejected himself from the aircraft, and landed nearby the local airport, suffering minor injuries. Source: Sina Weibo People’s Liberation Army Air Force Chengdu J-7 crashed …

U.S.-ROK fighter jets flying in formation on June 7, 2022 | Image: ROK MND Twitter South Korea and the United States held an air power demonstration involving 20 fighter jets amid signs North Korea may soon conduct a nuclear test. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the air demonstration …

A J-16 fighter jet attached to an aviation brigade of the air force under the PLA Western Theater Command sits on the parking apron while receiving power-on inspections prior to a flight training exercise in southwestern China’s Chongqing Municipality on March 6, 2018. Photo: eng.chinamil.com.cn Australia recently lodged a complaint …

A C-130H of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force made an emergency landing at Nagoya/Komaki. The Hercules was stuck on the runway and the runway was closed for a half-hour, causing a commercial arrival flight to be delayed for 5 minutes. An image of the landing of an aircraft that seems …

E-3009Y F-104A (Serial # 55-2961) on Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards AFB. July 9, 1957 NASA Photo & F-104 Project Description – NASA Identifier: 306433main_E-3009 On Aug. 1, 1966, the USAF F-104 Starfighter fleet saw some of its worst losses in the Vietnam War, with a pair of 435th Fighter …

Skunk Works division of Lockheed Martin shares details about the creation of the Darkstar hypersonic aircraft featured in the film. The involvement of Skunk Works in the project had already been confirmed by the CEO of Lockheed Martin, James Taiclet, in a post on LinkedIn after the world premiere of …

The graphic was made using Adobe Photoshop to create a double exposure of two images. The images included are of an A-10C Thunderbolt II and a pilot assigned to the 76th Fighter Squadron. (U.S. Air Force graphic by Airman 1st Class Hayden Legg) You’re probably familiar with the A-10 warplane’s …