Boeing E-3A Sentry (LX-N 90450, c/n 22845, NATO E-3A Component), in flight over the Czech Republic, November 2021. In the 1970s, the NATO authorities identified the need of acquiring a fleet of an Airborne Early […]
In the middle of November 2021, Su-34 aviation crews of the Central Military District performed a series of live-fly exercises in the area of South Ural region. Among elements of the training, advanced aerobatic manoeuvres […]
On 26th November 1943, Lieutenant Commander Edward Henry O’Hare – the US Navy´s first fighter ace – was shot down during a night intercept mission, flying a Grumman F6F Hellcat. His aircraft was never found. […]
Junkers Ju 52/3m (assembled in Spain as CASA 325L, c/n 13, F-AZJU), Amicale Jean Baptiste Salis, Plzeň/Líně airfield, September 2018. The Ju 52 was created in 1930, initially being just another single-engine aircraft representing the […]
On 9th November this year, US Army aviators, Air Force tactical air control specialists and Air Force special warfare airmen conducted a joint airborne training in the vicinity of Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER), Alaska. The […]
On 19th November 1915, Squadron-Commander Richard Bell Davies of No. 3 Squadron RNAS performed a successful rescue operation behind enemy lines, in order to save Flight Sub-Lieutenant Gilbert Formby Smylie. It is widely considered the […]
During the ongoing Dubai Airshow 2021, the Russian Helicopters holding (being a part of Rostec State Corporation) and the Emirati-based company AJ Holding LLC, have disclosed a few details about recently established joint venture named […]
On 10th November 2021, the Bomber Task Force – one of the US commitments to the collective defence of NATO – performed a simulated targeting mission over the North Sea. During that exercise, the UK-based […]
Sukhoi Su-31 (reg. LY-LJK, c/n 35125) and Jurgis Kairys at the controls, getting ready for departure, Lotnicza Majówka Iława, May 2019, Poland. A brief history of that ´aerobatic beast´ – which Su-31 undoubtedly is – […]
On 30th October 2021, the 890th Mixed Helicopter Squadron (a part of the 204th Air Brigade, Serbian Air Force and Air Defence) placed a cross on the top of Titerovac mountain. Its peak has an […]
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