The White House will move ahead with the sale of F-35 fighter jets to the United Arab Emirates, Reuters reported Thursday. The deal will see 50 F-35 jets sold to the UAE, sources told Reuters.
When a civilian aircraft strayed into forbidden airspace over an election rally for US President Donald Trump in Arizona on Wednesday, a US Air Force F-16 fighter jet was dispatched to warn it off, firing defensive flares to get the pilot’s attention. On Wednesday, Trump traveled to Bullhead City, Arizona, for a political rally less…
Two pilots of US Navy T-6B Texan II were killed on Friday when the training aircraft crashed in a small town near Mobile, Alabama, according to the Navy. The US Naval Air Forces spokesman for Commander, Zach Harrell, said that one of them was an instructor whereas the other was a student. The two-seat training…
A presidential no-fly zone saw two military fighter jets intercept two Middle Tennessee private planes Thursday afternoon. NORAD confirms that a military jet was scrambled in the Dickson area to intercept a private aircraft. According to officials, the fighter deployed flares near the aircraft that had wandered into restricted air space. A no-fly zone was…
The U.S. Naval Air Station in Lemoore announced that the crash near China Lake happened during a routine training flight and the pilot was able to safely eject from the jet. Officials said the pilot was taken to a nearby medical facility for examination and the U.S. Navy is cooperating fully with local authorities. Reports…
During the landing at Villahermosa-Capitan Carlos Perez Airport (VSA/MMVA), a helicopter belonging to the Mexican Navy, suffered an accident in which the tail boom was severed, leaving at least three people with multiple minor injuries. The details were given in a 17 October media release by the Mexican Navy Secretariat, to announce that five of…
A missile was fired into the sky on Friday on Turkey’s Black Sea coast where the military was expected to test its Russian-made S-400 defense systems, according to local video obtained by Reuters. The video, taken in the coastal city of Sinop, showed a narrow column of smoke headed high into the blue sky. In…
RAF Air Force jets scrambled to intercept Russian bombers that were heading towards the UK’s aircraft carrier yesterday, on exercise off the coast of Scotland. Typhoon jets shadowed two Tupulev 160 bombers as they flew out of the Arctic circle towards UK sovereign waters. An RAF source said the Blackjacks were “a hazard to other…
The test pilot Keith Hartley flew at 500 knots in a Tornado aircraft with the canopy off. In 1988, the test pilot Keith Hartley flew at 500 knots in a Tornado aircraft with the canopy off, testing the emergency escape procedures of the jet. The photo is featuring Pilot Keith Hartley conducting the ‘cockpit habitability…
Donald Trump will spend a “few days” at a military hospital after contracting Covid-19, the White House said Friday. Trump departed the White House by helicopter late Friday for Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, a White House official said. The official said the visit was precautionary and that Trump would work from the hospital’s…
The pilot of a military stealth fighter jet has parachuted to safety after colliding with an air tanker during a mid-air refueling operation near Imperial County, southern California. An F-35B combat jet crashed near the Salton Sea on Tuesday afternoon after hitting a KC-130J tanker, forcing the aircraft to make an emergency landing in a…
Incredible scenes at RAF Mildenhall with a tanker fleet ‘Elephant Walk’. Watch the mass launch of probably 11 tankers in support of Wolfpack exercise. The tankers are currently over the North Sea. Mike Stockbridge said: “Never seen this before and a very, very, rare event. Probably the entire Tanker Fleet at Mildenhall doing an ‘Elephant…
