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Historic
IN PICTURES: The early days of BOAC's Comet 4
In the de Havilland Comet 4, the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) had an aircraft able to rejuvenate a bit of national pride in commercial aviation, and to consign to history memories of the disasters that befell the original Comets. In conducting pre-delivery and route-proving flights, BOAC’s new flagships demonstrated their excellent performance to the full — and The Aeroplane was there to document these occasions
de Havilland 100: MacRobertson race Rapide
Think of de Havilland
aircraft in 1934’s MacRobertson International Air Race from England to Australia...
Military
RAF's last BAe 146 CC2 completes final flight
The RAF's sole remaining BAe 146 CC2 (serial ZE700) carried out its final flight on March 17, performing flypasts over multiple airfields before arriving in MOD St Athan, where it will be preserved at the nearby South Wales Aviation Museum
Leonardo M-346 crashes
At approximately 1200hrs on March 16, a Leonardo M-346 training aircraft crashed over Colico in Northern Italy
USMC and US Navy perform simultaneous manned and unmanned operations
The USMC’s Operational Test and Evaluation Squadron One (VMX-1) and the US Navy’s Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 23 (HSC-23) teamed up to conduct development in integrating manned and unmanned rotary-wing aircraft at Naval Air Facility El Centro, California, on March 10
Commercial
Room with a view: Paris
Michael Kelly reveals the photographic opportunities
from a hotel at one of the world’s busiest airports...
Tu-154 Tupolev’s Trijet Airliner
The Tupolev Tu-154 trijet was a workhorse of Aeroflot in the 1970s and 1980s...
Yak-40: The USSR’s regional jet
The Yak-40 brought jet travel to the remoter parts of the Soviet Union...
Ilyushin Il-86: First Soviet widebody
Alexander Mladenov and Krassimir Grozev examine the Il-86’s development and servcice career...
Flight Simulation
Edinburgh for P3D and X-Plane Released
Orbx has announced EGPH Edinburgh for Prepar3D version 4 and X-Plane 11 is out now.
TerraFlora for X-Plane 11 Released
Orbx has announced TerraFlora XP for X-Plane 11 is now available.
Microsoft Flight Simulator Episode 2 – Weather
The Microsoft development team has released the second episode of the Feature Discovery Series covering the atmospheric modelling in the upcoming flight simulator.
