On Sunday, October 17, 2021, around 10:10 a.m., an extra 330 two-seater aircraft from the French Air Force’s aerobatic team encountered an engine failure. During a transit mission between Biarritz and Salon-de-Provence, Captain Alexandre Orlowski, pilot of the aerobatic team of the French Air Force (ex- aerobatic world champion) accompanied by his mechanic, made a…
The US Air Force F-35A Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter moved a step closer to being able to carry nuclear weapons and conduct nuclear strike operations with a recent milestone test, the service reported this week. Two fifth-generation F-35A stealth fighter jets released B61-12 Joint Test Assemblies, non-nuclear mock-ups of a nuclear bomb, at the…
US Air Force F15 fighter jets were spotted in the sky over north London and Essex this morning and worried locals have taken to twitter to share their experiences of the ‘loud bang’. The loud roaring noise had been heard by hundreds in Essex, locals have reported. The sudden explosive sound was heard just before…
The mayors of many towns have just been contacted by the air force to ask them to report any bomb discovery. A major military exercise began on September 13 in the region, a Mirage 2000 that left the Cazaux air base (Gironde) and belonging to the Nancy military base, lost “a replica bomb from its…
Two pilots are injured and three homes are damaged after a US Navy T-45 jet crashed in a Lake Worth neighborhood Sunday morning, officials say. Lake Worth officials received a call at 10:53 a.m. about the downed plane in the 4000 blocks of Tejas and Dakota trails. Both pilots had ejected and one was found…
The US has admitted that a drone strike in Kabul days before its military pullout killed 10 innocent people. A US Central Command investigation found that an aid worker and nine members of his family, including seven children, died in the 29 August strike. The youngest child, Sumaya, was just two years old. The deadly…
A B-2 stealth bomber was damaged after making an emergency landing early Tuesday at Whiteman Air Force Base. The B-2 Spirit was damaged on a runway in the incident at approximately 12:30 a.m., Jennifer Greene, a spokeswoman for the Air Force Global Strike Command, told Kansas City television station KMBC. The bomber landed after an…
The U.S. Navy and Boeing have used the MQ-25TM T1 test asset to refuel a U.S. Navy F-35C Lightning II fighter jet for the first time, once again demonstrating the aircraft’s ability to achieve its primary aerial refueling mission. This was the third refueling mission for the Boeing-owned test asset in just over three months,…
It was maybe not a good idea to plan a drill with the French Air Force over south of Paris on 9/11. This Saturday in the middle of the afternoon, a plane which looked like an airliner was observed at very low altitude escorted by a fighter plane. It actually was a French Air Force…
A picture has surfaced showing a new aircraft generally matching Aerospace DAILY’s understanding of the shape of what is commonly known as the RQ-180 unmanned aircraft system (UAS). The Philippines sits between the South China Sea and the Philippine Sea, two contentious and highly surveilled bodies of water that regularly see large amounts of military…
U.S. Marines from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit were monitoring the air traffic control from the runway of Hamid Karzai International Airport. US troops were assisting in the evacuation of US citizens, Special Immigrant Visa applicants and other at-risk Afghan civilians from Afghanistan under Operation Allies Refuge.
U.S. airstrike targeted a suicide bomber in a vehicle who wanted to strike the Kabul airport. UPDATE U.S. Officials say a drone has stuck a vehicle in Kabul containing ‘multiple suicide bombers’ on its way to the city’s airport and the threat is believed to be eliminated. A child was killed in northwest of Kabul…
