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On 7 June, Pakistan International Airlines’ evening flight PK 702 from Manchester, U.K. to Islamabad, Pakistan departed more than Seven hours late after an inadvertent emergency slide deployment. Just before departure, a female passenger wanted to go to the bathroom but mistakenly took the aircraft’s door for a toilet door. …

The Indian Air Force has lost its fifth Antonov AN-32 military transport aircraft. The disappearance of an Indian Air Force’s AN-32 aircraft on Monday brought back agonising memories of other two IAF AN-32 missing Aircraft. Here are the details of all three IAF missing An-32 Aircrafts 1986 Indian Air Force …

Dutch airline KLM has revealed the stunning ‘Flying-V’ airplane design that burns 20 per cent less fuel than conventional aircraft and can carry more than 300 passengers inside the wings. The radical new plane design would put the passenger cabins in the wings of the plane along with the cargo …

On June 3, 2019, Lockheed Martin published an interesting 360-degree video walkaround of the F-35, hosted by Tony “Brick” Wilson, the test pilot that conducted the first F-35C carrier landing. In this video, recorded around a Royal Norwegian Air Force’s F-35 in Fort Worth, Wilson explains some of the most …

on June 2, 2019, we announced that D-Day 75th Anniversary Will Feature 30 Douglas C-47 Skytrains flyby and Massive Paratrooper Invasion. Apart from C-47 three Spitfires also flew over the white cliffs of Dover to mark the D-Day 75th anniversary. The three Spitfires, named Elizabeth, St George and City of …

On June 6, 1944, the Allies launched a massive offensive to invade German-occupied Western Europe and deployed 24,000 paratroopers, who jumped into the warzone to join over 160,000 of their comrades on the ground. Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history. …

With an increase in the demand for state-of-the-art aircraft, capabilities have caused costs to rise in the price of Modern military aircraft. All prices are adjusted to reflect their status in 2019 dollars, and all prices indicate per unit cost (not including research and development costs). Here is a list …

According to janes.com, the Royal Jordanian Air Force (RJAF) has put its Chinese-made armed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) up for sale In a notice posted on its website on 3 June, the RJAF said it was looking to sell six CH-4B UAVs, a type made by the China Aerospace Science …

In 1982 during maintenance procedures at Beale Air Force Base a Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird fell on its right-wing due to a Stupid Mistake The SR-71 #964 was going through a routine maintenance procedure at Beale Air Force Base. Due to Technician’s Improper maintenance procedures and failure to follow Technical Data …

The Lockheed P-38 Lightning is a World War II-era American piston-engined fighter aircraft. The P-38 had distinctive twin booms and a central nacelle containing the cockpit and armament. The P-38 was used for interception, dive bombing, level bombing, ground attack, night fighting, photo reconnaissance, radar and visual pathfinding for bombers …