The current home of the Red Arrows will close, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has revealed. The aerobatic team – formed in 1964 – has been at RAF Scampton since 2000 but will move to RAF Waddington in 2022. The MoD announced in 2018 that RAF Scampton would close as a cost-saving measure. The teams…
An aircraft with the Canadian Forces Snowbirds demonstration jet team has crashed in Kamloops on Sunday. A Canadian Snowbirds Canadair CT-114 has crashed in Kamloops, British Columbia. The plane did a barrel roll, and shortly after the barrel roll there was a spark and the pilot ejected. Then the plane took a nosedive and went…
An F-22 Raptor participating in a series of Florida flyovers this morning has crashed near Eglin AFB. Shortly after a flyover finished in Bay County a F-22 assigned to Eglin Air Force Base crashed. The pilot ejected safely before the plane crashed, Eglin officials said Friday. They added that the jet was part of a…
Video has surfaced showing a drone flying dangerously and illegally close to military jets over a major American city. The video was shot during the recent America Strong flyover by the United States Navy’s Blue Angels on May 12. The drone flies dangerously near six F/A-18 jets in formation as they are over downtown Detroit…
Typhoon fighter aircraft based at RAF Lossiemouth have carried out a training sortie with a US B1B Lancer bomber over the North Sea. The US B1B Lancer bomber was conducting a long-range nonstop training sortie from the United States to mainland Europe and back. During the flight, Typhoons from 1(F) Squadron, escorted the US bomber…
RAF Mildenhall refueled B-1B Lancers from Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota over the North Sea. With the fuel the B-1Bs ended up flying all the way to Eastern Europe to train with NATO allies and partner nations.
An Airbus A400M Atlas of the Spanish Air Force suffered a birdstrike at Zaragoza Airport, Spain. The Airbus A400M of the Spanish Air Force suffered a birdtrsike while landing at Zaragoza Airport Airport. The incident made a large hole on right side of the aircraft.
A Dornier aircraft was planned to undertake routine flight from Delhi’s Palam Air Base. During the take-off roll, aircraft experienced a tyre deflation. Tyre debris clearly blows through the fairing and causes a fire. The captain of the aircraft aborted the take off. Fortunatly the wing-fuel tanks didn’t get pierced.
Captain Tom Moore has been made an honorary colonel on his 100th birthday. The birthday has also been marked by a flypast of a Spitfire and Hurricane from the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, based at RAF Coningsby, which made three passes of his house. The Ministry of Defence had said it would “celebrate…
Typhoons from RAF Lossiemouth were launched today to intercept two Russian Tu-142. Unidentified aircraft were detected as they approached NATO’s area of interest. The ‘BEAR-F’ aircraft approached the UK. Norwegian Quick Reaction Alert were scrambled F-16s to identify the two Russian Tu-142s. RAF Typhoons were scrambled soon after as the Tu-142s tracked south towards the…
A NATO helicopter was reported missing in the Ionian Sea, west of the Greek mainland, on Wednesday evening. According to Greek Defense Ministry sources, the helicopter had taken off from a Canadian frigate. There were between three and six passengers in the helicopter. Please reload the page for updates Debris from the Canadian military helicopter…
The Pentagon on Monday formally released three unclassified videos taken by Navy pilots that have circulated for years showing interactions with “unidentified aerial phenomena.” One of the videos shows an incident from 2004, and the other two were recorded in January 2015, according to Sue Gough, a Defense Department spokeswoman. The videos became public after…
