More than year ago, we have informed about the first Mi-8AMT semi-knock-down (SKD) kits delivered by the Russian Helicopters holding to Kazakhstan. Those kits, intended for self-assembly, have launched a series of 17 Mi-8AMT / […]
On 24th December 1937, the first prototype of Macchi C.200 Saetta (also known as Macchi-Castoldi M.C.200), successfully performed its maiden flight, flown by chief test pilot Giuseppe Burei. The aircraft was designed by Mario Castoldi, […]
On 6th and 7th November 2021, the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base hosted the ´Thunder and Lightning Over Arizona´ air show. It featured a variety of military and civilian air displays, flown by both modern and […]
Lockheed T-33A Shooting Star (c/n 580-8967, 94+47), formerly German Air Force, exhibited at Deutsches Museum / Flugwerft Schleissheim, Munich, October 2019. On 22nd March 1948, a new American subsonic jet trainer, successfully performed its maiden […]
As winter came along, it is the right time for low-temperature training flights. Personnel of the 6th Air and Air Defence Forces army (6-я армия ВВС и ПВО) of the Western Military District was among […]
Another batch of Sukhoi Su-35S multirole fighters has been just received by aviation research and training centre in Lipetsk. As announced by the Russian MoD, on 13th December 2021 the new aircraft were transferred from […]
Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm Bo 105 CBS-4 (D-HUDM, c/n S-883, Flying Bulls), draining a runway during the 2017 edition of Red Bull Air Race, Lausitzring, September 2017. A light, twin-engine multipurpose helicopter, designated as Bo 105, performed its […]
On 6th December 2021, the aviation regiment located at Chelyabinsk Shagol air force base, and being a part of the 14th Army of the Air Force and Air Defence (14-я армия ВВС и ПВО), celebrated […]
On 10th December 1919, a modified Vickers Vimy heavy bomber with a crew of Keith Macpherson Smith, Ross Macpherson Smith, W.H. Shiers and J.M. Bennet, successfully landed at Darwin, completing the 17,911 kilometres journey from […]
On 7th December, the Aviation Engineering Service – AES (Инженерно-авиационная служба) of the Air Force Command of the Russian Aerospace Forces celebrated its 105th anniversary. The first aviation-related engineering posts within the Russian armed forces […]
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