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A passenger aircraft with 337 people on board was forced to divert in February after the pilot spilled coffee on the controls panel, UK investigators say. The Airbus A330-243 from Frankfurt, Germany, to Cancun, Mexico, had to land in Shannon, Ireland, the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) reports. The hot coffee …

As Hurricane Dorian approaches the US, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration sent a crew to perform recon on the storm. It’s the first time the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has put together an all-female crew for a mission like this one, the organization says. The all-female pilot …

Being a fighter pilot is the dream of many young aspiring Airmen. The path to get there is not easy. The achievement is even more remarkable for the Fullam family, who has witnessed five of their family members become pilots. For the Fullam family, serving in the military was their …

U.S. Air Force F-35A Joint Strike Fighters and F-15E Strike Eagles dropped 36,000 kilograms, or nearly 80,000 pounds, of bombs on ISIS positions at Qanus Island In the Iraqi province of Salah ad-Din in the framework of the US-led coalition campaign in the war-torn country. The island in Iraq’s Tigris …

The North American X-15 was a hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft operated by the United States Air Force and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration as part of the X-plane series of experimental aircraft. The X-15 set speed and altitude records in the 1960s, reaching the edge of outer space and returning …

U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) has confirmed that the first Raytheon’s Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band Engineering Development Model pod arrived at Naval Air Station Patuxent River after a trek across America late July to begin various verification and test procedures in preparation for the second pod delivery early fall. …

The Russian Air Force is a branch of the Russian Aerospace Forces, the latter being formed on 1 August 2015 with the merger of the Russian Air Force and the Russian Aerospace Defence Forces. The modern Russian Air Force was originally established on 7 May 1992 following Boris Yeltsin’s creation …

An A-10 Thunderbolt II prepares for maintenance in the 355th Equipment Maintenance Squadron hangar on Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., Aug. 8, 2019. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Jacob T. Stephens) As we have earlier reported that air Force completed A-10 re-winging to keep Warthog in the …

The pilot of the Eurofox reported that the two-meter long pink pig powered by six rotors on its back flew just nine meters away from him. The bizarre incident happened just after 2.15pm on May 4 this year when he was flying two miles south of Pocklington airfield, East Yorkshire. …

The Cold War Footage below, filmed in March 1984, during exercise “Highway ’84”, is particularly interesting as it shows an aircraft rarely seen operating from public roads: an F-104G Starfighter of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) in “heavy” (tip + pylon tanks) configuration. The video shows the F-104G “23+30”, belonging …