Check Out This Slow Motion Video Of A NACES Ejection Seat Test Out of the Martin-Baker’s Meteor Aircraft, 15 hours ago sur The Aviationist Interesing video shows the Mk14 ejection seat, more commonly known as SJU17A and NACES (Navy Aircrew Common Ejection Seat), in service in the F/A-18 and T-45 Goshawk, at work. Martin-Baker is a very well known [...] The post Check Out This Slow Motion Video Of A NACES Ejection Seat Test Out of the Martin-Baker’s Meteor Aircraft appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

Chilean “Pampa Tigers” Perform Rare Elephant Walk With Ten F-16s Carrying (Inert) Air-to-Air Missiles, 17 hours ago sur The Aviationist In conjunction with its 71st anniversary, Chilean Air Force Group N°7, nicknamed “Pampa Tigers”, performed a readiness drill with its F-16AM/BM MLU at Cerro Moreno Air Force Base (SCFA). This was also a rare opportunity [...] The post Chilean “Pampa Tigers” Perform Rare Elephant Walk With Ten F-16s Carrying (Inert) Air-to-Air Missiles appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

Swiss F/A-18D Hornet Sports Markings For MQM-178 Target Drone Kill With AIM-120C-7 During Tests in Sweden, 1 day, 12 hours ago sur The Aviationist The aerial target was shot down with an AIM-120C-7 AMRAAM during tests carried out by two F/A-18s at the Vidsel Range. In September 2018, the Swiss Air Force sent two of its Hornets, from Emmen, [...] The post Swiss F/A-18D Hornet Sports Markings For MQM-178 Target Drone Kill With AIM-120C-7 During Tests in Sweden appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

How Can An Air Show Be Organized In The COVID 19 Era? The Case Of Leszno Antidote Airshow 2020, 1 day, 23 hours ago sur The Aviationist We spoke with the organizers of the only air show in Poland this year. The “Antidote Air Show” held during the last weekend of August, has been the only international aviation event this year in [...] The post How Can An Air Show Be Organized In The COVID 19 Era? The Case Of Leszno Antidote Airshow 2020 appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

31st FW F-16s Deployed To RAF Lakenheath Have Started Zipping Low Level Through The Lake District, 3 days, 16 hours ago sur The Aviationist The Aviano Vipers have started training in LFA 17 this week. On Aug. 28, 2020, 16x F-16CM/DM Fighting Falcon jets of the 31st Fighter Wing, based at Aviano Air Base, in northeastern Italy, deployed to [...] The post 31st FW F-16s Deployed To RAF Lakenheath Have Started Zipping Low Level Through The Lake District appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

Air Force 73rd Birthday Graphic Features Rendering Of A Mysterious Next Generation Aircraft, 3 days, 18 hours ago sur The Aviationist Did The Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs Give Us A Hint At The Design Of The Demonstrator Of USAF Next Generation Fighter? The Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs has recently published [...] The post Air Force 73rd Birthday Graphic Features Rendering Of A Mysterious Next Generation Aircraft appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

Venerable Boeing 707 “Sashambre” Operated By MIT Lincoln Laboratory Has Flown Its Final Data Collection Mission, 4 days, 15 hours ago sur The Aviationist The Heavily Modified B707 N404PA will be transferred to the scrap yard next month. On Sept. 15, 2020, the Boeing 707-321B carrying civil registration N404PA, recently renamed “Sashambre” (previously, “Hannah” and “Paul Revere”), flew its [...] The post Venerable Boeing 707 “Sashambre” Operated By MIT Lincoln Laboratory Has Flown Its Final Data Collection Mission appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

Exclusive: 57th Wing Confirms Plan To Use Threat Representative Color Scheme on the Aggressor F-35s, 4 days, 16 hours ago sur The Aviationist It’s official: the 65th Aggressor Squadron at Nellis Air Force Base want to give their Lightning stealth jets a “threat representative” color scheme. Last week we broke the news that the 57th Wing had already [...] The post Exclusive: 57th Wing Confirms Plan To Use Threat Representative Color Scheme on the Aggressor F-35s appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

Astral Knight 2020 Exercise Kicks Off In Eastern Europe, 5 days, 18 hours ago sur The Aviationist “Enhancing regional security”. Astral Knight 2020 is a multinational exercise focused on air defense capabilities. Between Sep. 17 and 25, 2020, it is going to involve relevant air assets in Poland (airbases and aircraft), Latvia, [...] The post Astral Knight 2020 Exercise Kicks Off In Eastern Europe appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

U.S. Army AH-64 Apache Attack Helicopter Performs Precautionary Landing In Syria, 5 days, 23 hours ago sur The Aviationist The Helicopter Safely Returned To Base After Checking Out A Possible Transmission Fault. A U.S. Army AH-64 Apache attack helicopter performed a precautionary landing during an operational mission over northern Syria in the morning of [...] The post U.S. Army AH-64 Apache Attack Helicopter Performs Precautionary Landing In Syria appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

Lockheed Martin Releases New Animation of F-16s Using Tactical Airborne Laser Pod, 6 days, 10 hours ago sur The Aviationist “Tactical Airborne Laser Pods are Coming”. An interesting new video has just been released by Lockheed Martin. Focusing on the Tactical Airborne Laser Weapon System (TALWS), the animation shows F-16s equipped with laser pods cooperate [...] The post Lockheed Martin Releases New Animation of F-16s Using Tactical Airborne Laser Pod appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

The U.S. Air Force Has Secretly Built and Flown A Full-Scale Demonstrator Of Its Next Generation Fighter, 6 days, 15 hours ago sur The Aviationist The First Demonstrator Of A Next Gen. Fighter Aircraft has Already Flown With The U.S. Air Force. Dr. Will Roper, the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, announced yesterday that [...] The post The U.S. Air Force Has Secretly Built and Flown A Full-Scale Demonstrator Of Its Next Generation Fighter appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

Russian MoD Releases Video Of U.S. B-1B Lancer Bomber Intercepted Over The Bering Sea, 6 days, 18 hours ago sur The Aviationist Russian MiG-31s and Su-35S escorted a B-1B “BONE” from Dyess Air Force Base, flying in international airspace over the Northern Pacific Ocean, as it “approached” Russia’s airspace. On Sept. 15, 2020, the Russian MoD released [...] The post Russian MoD Releases Video Of U.S. B-1B Lancer Bomber Intercepted Over The Bering Sea appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

Boeing Has Completed Engine Run on First Unmanned Loyal Wingman Aircraft For Australia, 1 week ago sur The Aviationist Two new photos and a video have been released along with the news of the first engine run of the “artificial intelligence-powered teaming aircraft” for the Royal Australian Air Force. Boeing Australia has just fired [...] The post Boeing Has Completed Engine Run on First Unmanned Loyal Wingman Aircraft For Australia appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

Let’s Have A Close Look At “Sashambre” The Rare, Heavily Modified B707 operated by MIT Lincoln Labs for USAF, 1 week ago sur The Aviationist The Boeing 707 Is A Communications and Sensor Testbed For The U.S. Air Force. The rare Boeing 707-321B carrying civil registration N404PA, recently renamed “Sashambre” (previously, “Hannah” and “Paul Revere”), is an experimental aircraft owned [...] The post Let’s Have A Close Look At “Sashambre” The Rare, Heavily Modified B707 operated by MIT Lincoln Labs for USAF appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

Greece Officially Confirms Intention To Buy 18 French Rafale Combat Aircraft, 1 week, 1 day ago sur The Aviationist The aquisition program, which was first announced on Greek newspapers two weeks ago, will procure 18 Rafale fighter jets for the Hellenic Air Force. The Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced, during his annual speech [...] The post Greece Officially Confirms Intention To Buy 18 French Rafale Combat Aircraft appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

Four Italian Air Force Typhoons Perform Opening Flyover At The First Ever Tuscan F1 Grand Prix at Mugello, 1 week, 1 day ago sur The Aviationist While flyovers in Italy are usually carried out by the Frecce Tricolori display team, four F-2000s flew over the starting grid of the Grand Prix near Florence, Italy, today, to celebrate the 1000th Formula 1 [...] The post Four Italian Air Force Typhoons Perform Opening Flyover At The First Ever Tuscan F1 Grand Prix at Mugello appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

The Italian Typhoons Supporting NATO Baltic Air Policing in Lithuania Intercept A Russian Il-20M ELINT Aircraft, 1 week, 2 days ago sur The Aviationist Unlike what has happened in the past, the Italian MOD this time has released a photograph of the intercept. The Italian Air Force F-2000, currently deployed to Šiauliai, Lithunia, to support NATO Baltic Air Policing [...] The post The Italian Typhoons Supporting NATO Baltic Air Policing in Lithuania Intercept A Russian Il-20M ELINT Aircraft appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

MQ-9 Reaper Drone Fires Live AIM-9X Block II AAM At BQM-167 Target Drone Simulating a Cruise Missile, 1 week, 3 days ago sur The Aviationist This is the second successful MQ-9 AIM-9X employment since the first air-to-air shot in November of 2017 against a target drone. The U.S. Air Force has recently employed a live AIM-9X Block II air-to-air missile [...] The post MQ-9 Reaper Drone Fires Live AIM-9X Block II AAM At BQM-167 Target Drone Simulating a Cruise Missile appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

These Are Some Of The Designs Submitted For The New Aggressors F-35 Color Scheme, 1 week, 4 days ago sur The Aviationist Seven designs for Lightning stealth jets in Aggressor camouflage were submitted by artist Sean Hampton. As some of our readers will probably remember, last year the U.S. Air Force announced the plan to reactivate the [...] The post These Are Some Of The Designs Submitted For The New Aggressors F-35 Color Scheme appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

The Crash Of The Su-27 Flanker “14 Red” At Salgareda Air Show 30 Years Ago Today, 1 week, 5 days ago sur The Aviationist The Flanker crashed into the ground killing the pilot and an airshow service member. On Sept. 9, 1990, a Soviet Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker, crashed during an airshow held at Salgareda, a small airfield with a [...] The post The Crash Of The Su-27 Flanker “14 Red” At Salgareda Air Show 30 Years Ago Today appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

U.S. Marine Corps F-35Bs of the “Wake Island Avengers” Land In The UK For Joint Training With British Lightnings, 1 week, 5 days ago sur The Aviationist The US Marine Corps Squadron Will Take Part To Numerous Exercises Ahead Of Next Year’s Deployment On The HMS Queen Elizabeth Aircraft Carrier. Ten F-35Bs from the US Marine Corps Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) [...] The post U.S. Marine Corps F-35Bs of the “Wake Island Avengers” Land In The UK For Joint Training With British Lightnings appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

Two U.S. B-52s of Bomber Task Force 20-4 Fly Mission In Moroccan Airspace Before Landing at Spanish Airbase, 1 week, 6 days ago sur The Aviationist The Stratofortresses deployed to RAF Fairford, UK, have flown a training mission over Northwestern Africa. On Sept. 7, 2020, two U.S. B-52H Stratofortress strategic bombers, belonging to the 5th Bomb Wing, from Minot Air Force [...] The post Two U.S. B-52s of Bomber Task Force 20-4 Fly Mission In Moroccan Airspace Before Landing at Spanish Airbase appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

Check Out These Amazing Photos Of A U.S. C-17 Globemaster III Flying Low Level Through The Lake District LFA In UK, 2 weeks ago sur The Aviationist You don’t see cargo aircraft flying at low level too often! The stunning shots in this article were shot on Saturday, Sept. 5, 2020, by photographer Simon Pearson-Cougill from Dunmail Raise, in the Lake District, [...] The post Check Out These Amazing Photos Of A U.S. C-17 Globemaster III Flying Low Level Through The Lake District LFA In UK appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

Terrifying Video Filmed Aboard Atlas Air B767 During Emergency Following Engine Failure After Take Off From Honolulu, 2 weeks, 1 day ago sur The Aviationist The military chartered flight with 212 people on board performed an emergency landing after an in-flight engine shut down, shortly after departing from Honolulu. On Sept. 5, 2020, an Atlas Air Boeing 767-300, N649GT, flying [...] The post Terrifying Video Filmed Aboard Atlas Air B767 During Emergency Following Engine Failure After Take Off From Honolulu appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

Royal Air Force To Get New AESA Radars for the Eurofighter Typhoon, 2 weeks, 1 day ago sur The Aviationist The new radar, called European Common Radar System Mark 2, will enter service in the mid-2020s. The Royal Air Force signed a £ 317 million (about USD 421 million) contract with Leonardo and BAE Systems [...] The post Royal Air Force To Get New AESA Radars for the Eurofighter Typhoon appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

Portuguese F-16s Deployed to Malbork, Poland, For NATO Enhanced Baltic Air Policing, 2 weeks, 3 days ago sur The Aviationist Portuguese Vipers have arrived in Poland. The Portuguese Air Force has deployed four F-16M Vipers from Monte Real Air Base, Portugal, to 22 Baza Lotnictwa Taktycznego at Malbork Air Base in Poland, along with around [...] The post Portuguese F-16s Deployed to Malbork, Poland, For NATO Enhanced Baltic Air Policing appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

Three U.S. B-52s Fly Mission Over Ukraine’s Sea of Azov Coast In A Clear Show Of Force Toward Russia, 2 weeks, 3 days ago sur The Aviationist The U.S. strategic bombers, tracking online, have flown inside Ukrainian airspace and operated quite close to the border with Crimea. One week after taking part in the one-day Allied Sky mission that saw 6 B-52s [...] The post Three U.S. B-52s Fly Mission Over Ukraine’s Sea of Azov Coast In A Clear Show Of Force Toward Russia appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

Taiwan MOD “Solemnly Refutes” Internet Reports That Taiwan Shot Down a Chinese Su-35 That Violated Its Airspace, 2 weeks, 3 days ago sur The Aviationist It looks like the news of a Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) Su-35 shot down by a Taiwanese ADS (Air Defense System) is fake. The news that Taiwan brought down a Chinese Air [...] Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

USMC RQ-21A Blackjack Drones Supported USAF B-1B and B-2’s Long-Range Air Strikes During Australian Drills, 2 weeks, 4 days ago sur The Aviationist The Marine Corps Blackjack UASs (Unmanned Aerial Systems) supported Australian Army joint terminal attack controllers (JTACs) coordinating air U.S. Air Force B-1B and B-2 Spirit bombers’ long-distance airstrikes during recent exercise in Australia. The U.S. [...] Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)