PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Year: 2022
MILITARY AVIATION
Hot refuel at Darwin
During the last week, extraordinary guests have visited the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) air base at Darwin, the Northern Territory. They were B-1B Lancer heavy supersonic bombers that performed a hot pit refuelling there, […]
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Hawker Sea Fury FB.11
Hawker Sea Fury FB.11 (c/n 41H/656802, D-CRZY, formerly WJ298 of the Royal Navy and ´308´ of the Iraqi Air Force) flying display at 30th edition of Aviation Fair air show, Pardubice, May 2022. Hawker Sea […]
MILITARY AVIATION
Alaskan aggressors at Red-Flag 22-2
On 9th June 2022, the current edition of joint exercise Red Flag – Alaska was officially launched at the Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex. The training, organized on regular basis since 1992, is a large-scale […]
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Training the next generation of ´Fulcrum´ pilots
Although in most of the European countries, the MiG-29 jets are about to be retired soon – usually going to be replaced by aircraft of Western design – there is a country where that aircraft […]
AVIATION HISTORY FRIDAY
17 June 1910 – first flight of powered aircraft built by Aurel Vlaicu, Romanian aviation pioneer
On 17th June 1910, Vlaicu I, an aircraft built by Aurel Vlaicu, performed its maiden flight near Cotroceni Hill (Dealul Cotroceni) in Bucharest. It was the very first flight of a powered aeroplane in Romania […]
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Poseidon enters service – P-8A for Norway
On 27th May 2022, with the arrival of aircraft 9586 to Evenes air base, Norway has received the fifth – and final – Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft (MPA). The new jets will replace […]
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MILITARY AVIATION
Norway to terminate contract for NH90 helicopters
Last Friday, 10th of June, the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Defence has announced the country is going to terminate the contract for NH90 deliveries, as well as to cancel introduction of that rotorcraft into the […]
AVIATION HISTORY FRIDAY
10 June 1913 – Marcel Brindejonc des Moulinais performed a long-distance flight, awarded with Coupe Pommery
On 10th June 1913, Marcel Brindejonc des Moulinais performed a flight from Paris Villacoublay to Warsaw, in a Morane-Saulnier H monoplane. He covered 1,382 kilometres, winning the Pommery Cup for the longest flight made in […]