Credits: Paramount Pictures (Screenshot from Top Gun: Maverick new trailer) Top Gun: Maverick producer Jerry Bruckheimer has revealed that all the cast had flight training so they could ‘get used to the G-forces’ to stop them from vomiting in the air. While Tom Cruise was feeling “the need for speed” …
Read More »U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor Demo Team Announces New Pilot
In a Nellis Air Force Base press release U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor Demo Team Announces New Pilot U.S. Air Force Maj. Josh Gunderson takes over as the new F-22 Demonstration Team pilot and commander, Jan. 21, 2020, Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia. Gunderson, who goes by the callsign “Cabo,” will …
Read More »Israeli F-35 Accidentally Appeared On Flight Tracking Website Over Nuclear Facility
Two Israeli F-35 “Adirs” fly in formation- Credits: (U.S. Air Force photo by 1st Lt. Erik D. Anthony and FLIGHTRADAR24/SCREENSHOT) According to the Jerusalem Post report, an Israeli Air Force F-35 stealth jet revealed itself on international civil aircraft tracking radars while flying over the Shimon Peres Nuclear Research Center in …
Read More »U.S. Air Force Used Robots To Remove Paint From The A-10 Thunderbolt II
Corrosion control technicians with the 576th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron monitor two media blast robots as they strip paint off the first production A-10 aircraft to receive a new robotic removal process Dec. 4, 2019, at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. (U.S Air Force photo by Todd Cromar) For the first …
Read More »Jordanian Princess Becomes Her Country’s First Female Pilot
Jordan’s Princess Salma Bint Abdullah made history as she became the first Jordanian woman to complete preliminary pilot training on fixed-wing aircraft, according to a statement from the Royal Hashemite Court. King Abdullah II presented his daughter Salma with her wings in a ceremony at Amman’s Al Husseiniya Palace yesterday, …
Read More »U.S. Air Force & Australian Air Force Team Up To Support Wildfire Relief
Australians have been battling devastating wildfires since September of last year. More than 13 million acres have burned across the country as firefighters and emergency responders continue to battle the blazes. According to Nellis Air Force press release members of the Royal Australian Air Force and Nellis Air Force Base …
Read More »Video Shows Saab 37 Viggen Pilot Achieving RADAR LOCK On SR-71 Blackbird
In the Cold War era, Swedish JA-37 Jas Viggen fighter pilots were scrambled on 400-500 live Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) missions per year to intercept any unidentified aircraft approaching Swedish airspace. QRA targets came from both Warsaw and NATO nations During that QRA missions, JA-37 Jas Viggen fighter pilots were …
Read More »U.S. Military Drones Went Incommunicado During Iranian Ballistic Missile Strike
Fears of imminent war between Iran and the United States subsided after the US assassinated a top Iranian commander and Tehran hit bases housing American troops in Iraq with ballistic missiles. But Iran warned the US against further attacks after it launched more than a dozen ballistic missiles at the …
Read More »Syrian Air Force Planning Large Acquisitions Of MiG-21 Fighter Aircraft From Egypt
The Syrian government’s plans to purchase MiG-21 fighters from Egypt were recently discovered by Zaman Al Wasl, a Syrian leading news site. According to the publication, Damascus sent a military-technical delegation of the Syrian Air Force command to Cairo to inspect several aircraft parked at the Egyptian airbases with the …
Read More »Sierra Technical Unveils Fifth Generation Aerial Target Aircraft
Source: Sierra Technical Sierra Technical Services recently unveils ‘faster’ and ‘more maneuverable’ stealth UAVs. According to Flight global stealth UAV completed several ground tests, including an engine test run, on its Fifth Generation Aerial Target (5GAT) aircraft. The aircraft, which is powered by two General Electric J85 engines salvaged from retired …
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