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AIR SHOW NEWS

2025 European air show season – news and updates (2)

10 March 2025 Jacek Domański

As every year, we would like to bring your attention to some upcoming aviation events in Europe and share our experiences from the previous editions, as well as let you know the reasons, why we […]

MILITARY AVIATION

Royal Navy UAV helicopter tracking smugglers and drug traffickers in the Middle East

3 March 2025 Kacper Kolibowski

Peregrine is a Royal Navy (RN) variant of the three-metres-long (10 ft) civilian Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) rotorcraft S-100 Camcopter, made by Schiebel company from Austria. The RN-specific variant is equipped with the tailored UK […]

AVIATION HISTORY

UTVA 75 – the (almost) forgotten Yugoslavian trainer

26 February 2025 Jacek Domański

A little while ago, the Serbian Ministry of Defence (Министарство одбране Републике Србије) published a reportage related to aviation training programme which was ongoing at the Colonel-Pilot Milenko Pavlović military airfield in Batajnica. The course […]

MILITARY AVIATION

40th anniversary of Patrulla Águila and the final performance of the Spanish jet aerobatic team

23 February 2025 Jacek Domański

On 21st February 2025, Margarita Robles, the Spanish Minister of Defence, visited Academia General del Aire y del Espacio (the General Academy of the Air and Space Force) in San Javier. The local air force […]

MILITARY AVIATION

Seventeen CH-47JA Block II Chinook helicopters for Japan

17 February 2025 Jacek Domański

Since the 1980s, Boeing and Kawasaki delivered more than one hundred Chinooks to the JSDF. The helicopters were manufactured through one of the longest lasting and most successful license manufacturing programmes in Japan. ´This award […]

MILITARY AVIATION

Cold weather experiment – Airbus A400M Atlas

5 February 2025 Jacek Domański

Between 13th and 20th January 2025, the French Equipe de Marque Avion de Transport Tactique (Test and Evaluation Squadron for Tactical Airlift – EMATT) intensively tested capabilities of the Airbus A400M Atlas airlifter by operating […]

AIR SHOW NEWS

2025 European air show season – news and updates (1)

2 February 2025 Jacek Domański

The first month of 2025 is already over and that means it is about time to start preparing for this year´s air show season. Therefore, as every year, we will tell you about some upcoming […]

DREAMERS AND DOERS

Dario Costa performs world-first flight along the Streif in Kitzbühel

29 January 2025 Kacper Kolibowski

On 23rd January 2025, the Italian aerobatic and stunt pilot Dario Costa pushed the boundaries of aviation once again, when he flew his Zivko Edge 540 aerobatic aeroplane at a top speed of 350 kph, […]

DREAMERS AND DOERS

Dutch big-air kitesurfer and Polish pilot perform historic feat in South Africa

22 January 2025 Kacper Kolibowski

On Thursday, 16th January 2025, at Dolphin Beach in Cape Town, extreme big-air kitesurfer Lasse Walker performed a world-first stunt by jumping with a kite in the water over a low-flying aircraft with world-wide-known aerobatic […]

MILITARY AVIATION

NATO Iceland Air Policing – the Finnish debut

20 January 2025 Jacek Domański

In February this year, the Finnish Air Force (Ilmavoimat) will, for the first time, participate in the NATO Iceland Air Policing mission. The Finnish deployment will consist of four F/A-18 Hornet fighters and about 50 […]

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