Amazing Aviation Stories, Aviation History, History & Legends, Military Aviation, WWI
The Luckiest Man Alive Imagine this: it’s 1918, the skies over Europe are a chaotic ballet of whirling biplanes, and our star, Captain John H. Hedley, is perched in the back of a Bristol F.2B, a two-seater fighter, with his pilot, Captain Reginald...
Fighter Jets, History & Legends, Military Aviation, Naval, World Records Aviation
It had always been U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Katie Higgins’ dream to become a pilot, and follow in her family’s steps. This became reality in 2011, when she received her wings. But last weekend was probably the best day of her life, when she successfully...
Fighter Jets, Military Aviation, Photography
Lieutenant Chris Nigus sent us a jaw-dropping selection of spectacular images he took while flying on missions during the last couple of years of his deployment in Japan. Above you can see him flying at a low level in Japan’s well known Orange Route. Some of the...
Fighter Flights, Fighter Jets, Inside MiGFlug, Military Aviation
Watching films like Top Gun or Operation: Red Flag the appeal of being a fighter jet pilot, is easily seen, but would the famous actor Tom Cruise have made a real fighter pilot, let alone you or me? The cockpit of a fighter plane is a very restricted and highly...
Fighter Flights, Fighter Jets, Inside MiGFlug, Military Aviation, Reconnaissance
As this article is being written, two of the largest constituent states of the old Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Ukraine, and Russia, are getting ready to go to war. But as these two former relatives stare down on each other, one lightning-fast weapon most...
Aviation World, Experimental Aircraft, Fighter Flights, Fighter Jets, Inside MiGFlug, Military Aviation
One of the largest air forces is dealing with more missions than ever before. In fact, they are calling in some military contractors to fly their jets. The US Air Force is being forced to consider recruiting air contractors due to the fact that they simply don’t have...
Aviation World, Experimental Aircraft, Military Aviation
Strategic & tactical capabilities The brand new A400M has been designed cautiously to meet the contemporary equipment transport needs of modern armed forces around the world. The A400M is capable of undertaking missions which previously required two, or more,...
Aviation World, Experimental Aircraft, History & Legends, Military Aviation, World Records Aviation
The world’s largest aircraft to date – The Antonov 225 Mriya; The Ukrainian word for ‘Dream’. This humongous aircraft was primarily built to carry the Soviet Space Shuttle (Buran). With six Ivchenko Progress D-18T turbofan engines, it can carry up to...
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