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Historic
FlyPast Classics: The Brilliant Barrel
Sweden’s small yet forward-looking aircraft industry became a world leader...
B-17 at 85: Swords into Ploughshares
The B-17 Flying Fortress is legendary for its World War Two missions...
Blue Mossies, Pink Spits and Flashing Wimpys
Mick Britton details the important role of the RAF’s 34 (PR) Wing...
Reinforcing the UK: USAF Cold War Fighter Deployments
From the late 1970s, the USAF’s Tactical Air Command developed detailed deployment plans to move aircraft to Europe to counter the Warsaw Pact should the Cold War heat up. Dr Kevin Wright looks at how these plans were implemented in Britain from 1978 to 1991.
Junkers Ju 252 and ‘352: Replacing Aunty Ju
The successor to the famous Ju 52/3m trimotor was the Ju 252...
Military
Russia rolls out stealthier Sukhoi S-70 Okhotnik combat UAV
A modified, stealthier production version of the Sukhoi S-70 Okhotnik UCAV has been unveiled. The official rollout took place on December 14 at the Novosibirsk Aviation Plant V P Chkalov
Behind the scenes of Exercise Cormoran 2021
Exercise Cormoran-21 brought together France's navy and army in a high-intensity, large-scale, amphibious wargame, reports Babak Taghvaee
Airbus nets French Guépard deal to close out sales year
Airbus looks to have been the beneficiary of an €8.6bn deal for the development, manufacture and delivery of more than 160 H160M ‘Guépard’ helicopters for the French Armed Forces
Commercial
How an Alitalia A320 tipped up and struck tail during take-off
The narrowbody was accelerating down the runway when it experienced an uncommanded pitch up
Stunning pictures of first 777-300ERSF taking part in flypast
Shortly after reaching the halfway mark with the joint GECAS and IAI conversion project, the Israeli firm flew the jet as part of a commemorative flypast
Quiz: How well do you know your airliners? - Part 2
Back by popular demand, this week's Commercial Aviation quiz focuses on identifying the aircraft instead of the airline. Do you know your A330-200 from A330-300 and Boeing 777-200LR from 777-300ER? Let us know what score you get!
Flight Simulation
Spitfire A Flight Simmer’s Guide - Part 1
In the first instalment of this two-part guide to Spitfire simulations, we examined the essential features of each of the products under discussion, namely: Aeroplane Heaven’s Mk I, A2A Simulations’ MK I and II, DCS’ Spitfire LF Mk IX, Cliffs of Dover’s Mk I and II and RealAir Sim’s Mk IX and XIV.
