Inside the British spy plane that a Russian fighter pilot tried to shoot down
A top secret RAF spy plane shown being threatened with destruction by a Russian fighter jet has been likened to an ...
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Rolls-Royce turns retired British fighter jets into 3D-printed engine parts
Rolls-Royce has pioneered a unique recycling effort, transforming the United Kingdom Royal Air Force’s (RAF) old aircraft ...
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Yak-9 Represents a Rare Breed Among Warbirds
The Russian Yakovlev Yak-9 was one of the smallest and lightest combat ... In broad strokes, the aircraft is a single-engine, multirole fighter used by the Soviet Union and its allies during ...
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The Flying Potato & 10 More Of The Oddest Food-Related Military Aircraft Nicknames
The P-51 Mustang was a World War II long-range, single-seat fighter and ... Lysander was a British army cooperation and liaison aircraft used just before and during WWII. The aircraft was used for ...
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‘Son of Concorde’ test pilot reveals update on jet’s first supersonic flight as London-NY trips in 3.5 hours edge closer
The plane ran over a small piece of metal on the runway, which burst a tyre and caused an engine to ignite. It was also the only aircraft in the British Airways fleet that required a flight engineer.
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Modi to co-chair AI Action Summit
On the morning of February 12, the two leaders will visit a war cemetery where they will pay homage to Indian soldiers (of the then British ... 26 Rafale-Marine fighter aircraft for the Indian ...
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Can Any Country In The World Build Commercial Aircraft On Its Own?
To take an example from fighter jets, all non-Russian and non-Chinese fighter jets either have British Martin Baker ejection seats ... it would likely suffer the same fate. A small group of Western ...
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U.S. Navy MH-60R Seahawk Helicopter Shoots Down Houthi Drone for the First Time
The British Royal Navy recently tested its Wildcat ... network to save its missiles for cruise and ballistic threats, and free up fighter aircraft for desperately needed fire support missions ...
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The alternative aviation magazine
Operation Friston was the UK response when Soviet ships passed through waters near the UK. It was regularly activated as Northern Fleet Soviet warships often transited the Iceland – Faroes gap en ...
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Heinkel He 162 A-2 Spatz (Sparrow)
The German jet ... small airframe, so Heinkel substituted two 20 mm MG 151/20 cannon, creating the He 162 A-2 variant. Heinkel started production before completing the initial testing and modification ...
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General Atomics Pitches Drone Launch System for US and Allied Warships
“As you know, with the proliferation of RPAS [Remotely Piloted Aircraft System] worldwide, whether on land or sea, we’ve been asked to look at the launch of RPAS in very small footprint ... systems ...
10 U.S. Fighter Jets That Never Took To The Skies
Not every experimental jet fighter made by the U.S. military would go on to reach production, for any number of reasons.