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Gen. Mike Holmes, the commander of Air Combat Command, congratulates Capt. Kristin “BEO” Wolfe, the new F-35A Lightning II Demonstration Team pilot (U.S. Air Force photo by Capt. Kip Sumner). Lockheed Martin has reported that it trained the 1,000th pilot and 9,000th maintainer for the F-35 Lightning II program. More …

Photo caption: The picture shows the first fully automated refuelling contacts between an Airbus tanker test aircraft and a Portuguese Air Force F-16 fighter jet. Credits: airbus Airbus has achieved the first-ever fully automatic air-to-air refueling (A3R) operation with a boom system. The flight test campaign, conducted earlier in the …

Credits: Rob Schleiffert – Mirage F1BD Via Wikipedia A Mirage F1 fighter jet from the Government of National Accord (GNA) is said to have been shot down by an air defence system of the Libyan National Army (LNA). The LNA’s air defenses, using their Russian-made Pantsir-S system, shot down the French-made Mirage …

IAF helicopter Apache after emergency landing in Hoshiarpur of Punjab. (Photo:India Today) A brand new AH-64E Apache attack helicopter of the Indian Air Force (IAF) made an emergency landing in a field in Punjab’s Hoshiarpur. The two pilots are safe and the district police are in touch with the IAF’s …

U.S. Air Force Staff. Sgt. Maximilion Estrada, Phoenix Spark noncommissioned officer in charge of agile manufacturing, assembles a face shield(U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Jonathon Carnell) U.S. Air Force based at the Travis Air Force Base has started producing 3D printed face shields amid protective equipment shortages in …

Kazakhstan Air Force MiG-31 crashed shortly after takeoff, as one of the engines caught fire. Both pilots ejected safely. A MiG-31 military aircraft has crashed in Kazakhstan’s Karaganda region due to a fire in one of its engines, the Defence Ministry said in a statement. “The accident occurred south of …

A Russian Air Force Su-35S – Credits: Wikipedia via Dmitry Terekhov from Odintsovo, Russian Federation The US military accused a Russian fighter jet of putting the crew of a US Navy surveillance plane at risk while performing a high-speed inverted maneuver in front of the US aircraft during an “unsafe” intercept …

The Aérospatiale AS 532UL Cougar military helicopter from the 5th Combat Helicopter Regiment (RHC) of Pau crashed under unknown circumstances during a training exercise. Two occupants died and five were injured. Two of the injured were taken care of by the rescue team while they were in a state of …

Antonov An-225 at Arlanda airport – Credits: Larske  Via Wikipedia Equipped with six engines and 16 pairs of landing gear wheels, the Antonov An-225 Mriya is the undisputed largest cargo aircraft in the world. The cargo aircraft—full of medical supplies to combat the COVID-19 pandemic—touched down in Warsaw, Poland. The …

Boeing’s F-15QA ascends in a ‘Viking’ takeoff at Lambert International Airport in St. Louis, Missouri in April 2020 (Twitter/Boeing) Boeing announced that the F-15QA, the most advanced version of the F-15 Eagle, performed successfully its first flight from the company’s plant at Lambert International Airport in St. Louis. Chief Test Pilot …