Lessons Learned In Ukraine Helped Shape Falcon Strike 22, The 5th Gen-Centric ‘European Red Flag’, 3 days, 3 hours ago sur The Aviationist Designed for 5th gen fighter jets, Falcon Strike 2022 increased interoperability and cooperation to obtain the air dominance, taking also into account the lessons learned from the current situation in Ukraine. Exercise Falcon Strike 2002, [...] The post Lessons Learned In Ukraine Helped Shape Falcon Strike 22, The 5th Gen-Centric ‘European Red Flag’ appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

A C-2 Greyhound Pilot On The Tradition Of Growing A Mustache While Underway On Deployment, 3 days, 20 hours ago sur The Aviationist Here’s some background about one of the most famous traditions in the military. While their roots are not completely clear, “deployment mustaches” (i.e. a mustache grown by soldiers during a military deployment) have without any [...] The post A C-2 Greyhound Pilot On The Tradition Of Growing A Mustache While Underway On Deployment appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

Move Over ‘Top Gun: Maverick’, ‘Devotion’ Is Authentic Aviation Cinematography, 5 days, 1 hour ago sur The Aviationist Devotion Tells Harrowing True Story with Incredible Aerial Scenes and Solid Cast. Let me save you some time: director J.D. Dillard’s new film, “Devotion”, really is better than “Top Gun: Maverick”. It really is. “Devotion” [...] The post Move Over ‘Top Gun: Maverick’, ‘Devotion’ Is Authentic Aviation Cinematography appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

More Than Three Dozen Helicopters Take Part In Exercise Falcon Autumn 2022, 5 days, 23 hours ago sur The Aviationist Falcon Autumn 2022 saw the participation of Dutch, U.S. and Polish helicopters. Between Oct. 31 and Nov. 18, 2022, exercise Falcon Autumn 2022 took place in the Netherlands. Over 1,000 troops and 37 helicopters from [...] The post More Than Three Dozen Helicopters Take Part In Exercise Falcon Autumn 2022 appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

Turkey’s First Indigenous Unmanned Fighter Aircraft Carries Out Autonomous Taxi Tests, 6 days, 1 hour ago sur The Aviationist The Bayraktar Kizilelma drone has successfully completed the first autonomous taxi and take-off roll test. Baykar, the Turkish aerospace company that produces the Bayraktar TB2 Unmanned Aerial Combat Vehicles which have played a starring role [...] The post Turkey’s First Indigenous Unmanned Fighter Aircraft Carries Out Autonomous Taxi Tests appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

U.S. And Dutch F-35s Have Flown Without Radar Reflectors During First Week Of ‘Falcon Strike 2022’, 1 week ago sur The Aviationist Some of 5th gen. aircraft have operated in “full stealth mode” to train in the most realistic scenarios. As we already reported, F-35s from Italy, United States and the Netherlands are training together at Amendola [...] The post U.S. And Dutch F-35s Have Flown Without Radar Reflectors During First Week Of ‘Falcon Strike 2022’ appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

F-35s From Italy, U.S. And The Netherlands Train Together During ‘Falcon Strike 2022’, 1 week, 2 days ago sur The Aviationist The large-scale exercise focuses on fifth and fourth-generation integration, with F-35s flying both as Blue and Red Air. From November 15 to 28, 2022, F-35s from Italy, United States and the Netherlands are training together [...] The post F-35s From Italy, U.S. And The Netherlands Train Together During ‘Falcon Strike 2022’ appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

Flying With The VFC-111 ‘Sun Downers’, U.S. Navy Adversary Squadron, 1 week, 3 days ago sur The Aviationist Enjoy a behind the scenes view of the U.S. Navy Adversary Squadron VFC-111 “Sun Downers” at NAS Key West. Friend and long time fan of The Aviationist, U.S. based journalist and producer Jeff Bolton, flew [...] The post Flying With The VFC-111 ‘Sun Downers’, U.S. Navy Adversary Squadron appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

Enjoy An F-16 Ride-Along With ‘Rebel’ During The Viper Demo Flight Routine, 1 week, 5 days ago sur The Aviationist Capt. Aimee “Rebel” Fiedler takes us through the various maneuvers of the F-16 display during the Wings Over Houston Airshow. As the 2022 air show season draws to a close, our friend Erick Johnston strikes [...] The post Enjoy An F-16 Ride-Along With ‘Rebel’ During The Viper Demo Flight Routine appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

Let’s Talk About Airshow Safety, Formation Flying, Warbird Rides and FAA Rules, 1 week, 5 days ago sur The Aviationist The Texas Tragedy Raises Questions: Should Warbirds Be Flying? Are They Safe? Here Are All The Answers You Need. It was a horrific scene that could have been even worse. Six people killed when two [...] The post Let’s Talk About Airshow Safety, Formation Flying, Warbird Rides and FAA Rules appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

Multiple Nations Investigating China’s Efforts To Recruit Western Pilots, 2 weeks ago sur The Aviationist Western pilots approached with remunerative contracts to provide training to Chinese pilots. After reports about British pilots being targeted by China trying to recruit them to train the People’s Liberation Army Air Force, more countries [...] The post Multiple Nations Investigating China’s Efforts To Recruit Western Pilots appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

Inside One of the Remaining B-17G Flying Fortresses Still Flying, the ‘Yankee Lady’, 2 weeks, 1 day ago sur The Aviationist What’s It Like to Be Inside a WWII B-17G Flying Fortress? Come Inside for a Tour. In a bizarre coincidence, at the same time the tragic events of the B-17G and P-63 midair collision was [...] The post Inside One of the Remaining B-17G Flying Fortresses Still Flying, the ‘Yankee Lady’ appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

B-17 and P-63 Kingcobra Collide at Wings Over Dallas Air Show, 2 weeks, 1 day ago sur The Aviationist Both Aircraft Crash as Videos Surface of Midair Collision. A Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and a P-63 Kingcobra aircraft have collided at the Commemorative Air Force Wings Over Dallas airshow at the Dallas Executive Airport [...] The post B-17 and P-63 Kingcobra Collide at Wings Over Dallas Air Show appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

No One Enjoyed the Air Power Demo at Nellis AFB as Much as This Door Gunner!, 2 weeks, 3 days ago sur The Aviationist Hanging Halfway Out the Door of a Sideways Pave Hawk, No One Had a Better View. Last Weekend’s Aviation Nation Air Show at Nellis AFB outside Las Vegas, Nevada, was a magnificent post-pandemic return for [...] The post No One Enjoyed the Air Power Demo at Nellis AFB as Much as This Door Gunner! appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

US MC-130J Airdrops Cruise Missiles With Rapid Dragon Deployment System During Test In Norway, 2 weeks, 4 days ago sur The Aviationist The Rapid Dragon deployment system contained JASSM-ER long-range cruise missiles. An MC-130J Commando II from the 352nd Special Operations Wing airdropped a Rapid Dragon deployment system containing long-range cruise missiles which were sequentially released on [...] The post US MC-130J Airdrops Cruise Missiles With Rapid Dragon Deployment System During Test In Norway appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

Romania Acquires 32 F-16s From Norway, 2 weeks, 4 days ago sur The Aviationist The retired F-16s will be upgraded and delivered beginning from 2023. The Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency (NDMA) has signed a contract with Romania, worth 388 million Euro (385M USD), for the sale of 32 F-16 [...] The post Romania Acquires 32 F-16s From Norway appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

Let’s Talk About The New Images That Show What The Upgraded B-52 Will Look Like, 2 weeks, 6 days ago sur The Aviationist Even if the first flight of the upgraded bomber is still years away, we now know how it will look like after the largest modification program in its history. As we extensively reported, the B-52 [...] The post Let’s Talk About The New Images That Show What The Upgraded B-52 Will Look Like appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

Greek, Turkish, Italian And U.S. Combat Aircraft Take Part In NATO Exercise PODA 22, 3 weeks ago sur The Aviationist Poggio Dart 2022 is currently underway in northern Italy. Organized by the NATO Deployable Air Command and Control Centre (DACC), based at Poggio Renatico in northern Italy, between Nov. 2 – 10, 2022, Poggio Dart [...] The post Greek, Turkish, Italian And U.S. Combat Aircraft Take Part In NATO Exercise PODA 22 appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

‘Because I Was Inverted!’ We Talked With The B-1B Test Pilot Who Flew The Awesome Roll at Edwards AFB, 3 weeks, 2 days ago sur The Aviationist It Was a Moment We’ll Talk About for Years, And We Met the Pilot Who Flew It. Aviation fans around the world were thrilled two weeks ago when video from a flight demonstration – that [...] The post ‘Because I Was Inverted!’ We Talked With The B-1B Test Pilot Who Flew The Awesome Roll at Edwards AFB appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

Italy Will Buy Six KC-46 Tankers To Replace Its KC-767As, 3 weeks, 3 days ago sur The Aviationist Italy to be a new Boeing KC-46A operator. The new Pegasus tankers will be designated KC-767B. The DPPD (Documento Programmatico Pluriennale della Difesa) for 2022-2024, the document released by the Italian Government this summer to [...] The post Italy Will Buy Six KC-46 Tankers To Replace Its KC-767As appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

Let’s Talk About The New Manned Sixth-Generation Fighter Renderings, 3 weeks, 5 days ago sur The Aviationist The notional design for the Next Generation Air Dominance program was shown during a briefing about the LMXT tanker, which the company is proposing for the KC-Y competition. Lockheed Martin released new renderings showing a [...] The post Let’s Talk About The New Manned Sixth-Generation Fighter Renderings appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

First Production AW609 Tiltrotor Takes Flight, 4 weeks ago sur The Aviationist This maiden flight brings the world’s first commercial tiltrotor closer to certification and delivery to the first customers. The Leonardo AW609 tiltrotor recently reached a new milestone, with the maiden flight of the first production [...] The post First Production AW609 Tiltrotor Takes Flight appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

The Spanish National Day Flypast Over Madrid, 4 weeks ago sur The Aviationist Almost 70 aircraft and helicopters took part in the flypast to celebrate Spain’s National Day. On Oct. 12, 2022, at the presence of King Felipe VI of Spain and Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, Spain celebrated [...] The post The Spanish National Day Flypast Over Madrid appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

Missiled Up Royal Navy AW159 Wildcat Helicopter Carries Out High Altitude Testing In Italy, 1 month ago sur The Aviationist The AW159 Wildcat spotted while conducting high altitude tests with a load of 20 Martlet missiles. After completing a testing campaign in the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea recently, the Royal Navy’s AW159 helicopter moved [...] The post Missiled Up Royal Navy AW159 Wildcat Helicopter Carries Out High Altitude Testing In Italy appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

Let’s Have A Look At This Year’s NATO Nuclear Strike Exercise In Europe, 1 month ago sur The Aviationist Codenamed “Steadfast Noon”, the yearly NATO drills involve both DCA (Dual Capable Aircraft) as well as non-nuclear aircraft. NATO’s yearly “deterrence” exercise, codenamed “Steadfast Noon”, is currently underway in Europe. The exercise officially started on [...] The post Let’s Have A Look At This Year’s NATO Nuclear Strike Exercise In Europe appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

Italian Canadair CL-415 Crashes During Firefighting Mission, 1 month ago sur The Aviationist The “water bomber” aircraft was fighting a fire in the mountains near Catania. A Canadair CL-415 aircraft with registration I-DPCN and radio callsign “Canadair 28”, crashed early in the afternoon on Oct. 27, 2022, during [...] The post Italian Canadair CL-415 Crashes During Firefighting Mission appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

Scaled Composites Model 401 Testing Possible Directed Energy Weapon Payload, 1 month ago sur The Aviationist The mysterious pod appeared two years ago, but a new artwork might shed some light on its function. One of the most mysterious aircraft currently being used for flight testing outside of the military is [...] The post Scaled Composites Model 401 Testing Possible Directed Energy Weapon Payload appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

First KC-390 Millennium Cargo Aircraft Arrives In Portugal, 1 month ago sur The Aviationist Portugal is the first European operator of the Brazilian aircraft. Escorted by two F-16s, the first KC-390 Millennium cargo aircraft for the Portuguese Air Force landed at Beja air base on Oct. 16, 2022. This [...] The post First KC-390 Millennium Cargo Aircraft Arrives In Portugal appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

British AW159 Wildcat Complete Martlet And Sea Venom Missile Trials, 1 month ago sur The Aviationist The Royal Navy helicopter has been extensively tested in various configurations, including a heavy 20-missile load. The Royal Navy’s AW159 Wildcat helicopters completed a new round of trials with the Martlet and Sea Venom air-to-surface [...] The post British AW159 Wildcat Complete Martlet And Sea Venom Missile Trials appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)

Insane First-Person Footage Of A Russian Pilot Ejecting From A Su-25SM Over Ukraine, 1 month ago sur The Aviationist This is probably the first ever action camera combat jet ejection footage. A crazy footage has started doing the rounds on social networks: posted by the popular Russian Fighterbomber Telegram channel (and then made available [...] The post Insane First-Person Footage Of A Russian Pilot Ejecting From A Su-25SM Over Ukraine appeared first on The Aviationist. Lire la suite… Traduction française (Google)