ALERT Russian SU-27 fighter violated Finnish airspace
Finland’s defence ministry said a Russian fighter jet violated Finnish airspace early last Thursday, after scrambled jets identified the SU-27 fighter over the Baltic Sea. “The suspected violation… continued approximately one minute, and was in Finnish airspace for about 13 kilometers at a maximum of about one kilometer depth,” the ministry said in a statement.
NEWS The red arrows left UK today to Asia-Pacific & Middle East Tour
The Red Arrows have embarked on the team’s biggest overseas tour in a decade. 2016 Tour Departure More than 20 displays and a series of flypasts will be performed across the Asia-Pacific and Middle East regions by the Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team. The major tour, which will take two months to complete, will see…
VIDEO A Dozen B-52 Nuclear Bombers Takeoff Together
The United States 5th Bomb Wing B-52s and their crews recently performed a mass takeoff during Prairie Vigilance exercise at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota. Prairie Vigilance is an annual exercise designed to test the wing’s ability to conduct conventional and nuclear-capable bomber operations.
NEWS U.S. B-1B fly over South Korea for second time since North nuclear test
Two U.S. supersonic bombers flew over South Korea on Wednesday, with one of them landing at an air base 40 km (25 miles) south of the capital, according to a Reuters witness, the second such flight since North Korea’s Sept. 9 nuclear test. The U.S. Forces Korea said in a statement the flight by a…
ALERT Two Russian Tu-160 bombers were intercepted by RAF Typhoons and Norwegian F-16s
Yesterday (Sept. 22), two nuclear-capable bombers Tu-160 Blackjack of Russian Air Force were intercepted and escorted by RAF Typhoons in Quick Reaction Alert. Two RAF Typhoons from RAF Lossiemouth were scrambled to intercept and escort the Blackjacks as they were heading north of Scotland. The interceptors were supported by a Voyager tanker. Earlier, two Norwegian F-16s intercepted…
VIDEO Royal Australian Air Force Hercules C-130J Takeoff from Melbourne Airport
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvcqfhNDhpk
VIDEO F-16 Touch and GO followed by Barrel roll
Impressive flying display Belgian Airforce F-16 Solo Display team at RIAT 2016 Fairford airshow. This is probably one of my best videos which I’ve filmed last summer.
NEWS US Air Force grounds F-35 fighter jets
The US Air Force said Friday it has grounded 10 of its F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, just over a month after they were declared “combat ready.” The decision affecting the most expensive weapons system ever was made “due to the discovery of peeling and crumbling insulation in avionics cooling lines inside the fuel tanks,” the…
VIDEO Declassified footage from U.S. Air Force shows auto GCAS saves unconscious F-16 pilot
Auto GCAS is designed to prevent CFIT (controlled flight into terrain) mishaps by executing an automatic recovery maneuver when terrain impact is imminent. The system predicts those conditions by means of a continuous comparison between a trajectory prediction and a terrain profile that is generated from onboard terrain elevation data.
