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Historic
Why the BAe 146 Side-Loading Tactical Airlifter failed
It looked the part, but the Side-Loading Tactical Airlifter version of the BAe 146 hardly saw customers beating a path to British Aerospace’s door. Ben Dunnell explains why, despite being an attractive package, the STA lead nowhere
Bobcat completes long journey to new home in Europe
Cessna T-50 Bobcat N60453 has been acquired by Flieger-Stadl e.V. of Landshut, Germany and recently completed an epic transit from the US to its new home
Twenty year Tiger Moth project completed
De Havilland DH.82 Tiger Moth ‘17’ (3619) has been returned to static display condition in Uruguay
Vintage Aircraft Club scholarship winner announced
Latest recipient of taildragger training award revealed
Displaying the Vulcan
In the January 2010 issue of Flypast, VTST Chief Pilot Martin Withers shared some personal highlights with Steve Beebee about displaying Vulcan XH558 the previous year
Military
F-35 stealth tactics focus for Italy’s biggest air exercise of 2022
Dutch and US F-35s teamed with their Italian counterparts in November for an exercise that echoed the US’ own Red Flag. Mauro Finati was on hand for Aviation News
What you need to know about the new B-21 Raider stealth bomber
After a relatively short seven-year development period, the USAF is poised to begin testing the first new long-range bomber developed since the Northrop Grumman B-2A entered service more than 30 years ago. Tom Kaminski reports
Everything you need to know about India’s new Light Combat Helicopter
India’s Light Combat Helicopter entered service in October 2022 after a lengthy development campaign. AirForces Monthly has followed the programme since the prototype’s maiden flight and provides details of this unique attack helicopter
Commercial
Alaska Airlines announces its BIGGEST Boeing order yet
The US-based carrier is exercising options for the Boeing 737 MAX. Find out all the detail here…
Flying on one of the world's last Douglas DC-8s
Almost 55 years since its Douglas DC-8 rolled off the production line, Christian charity Samaritan’s Purse continues to fly this first-generation airliner. Felix Reim steps on board to learn more
What’s the future fleet outlook for Air Astana?
Discover what the future fleet outlook is for the Kazakh flag carrier, regarding both narrow- and widebody types, by reading here on Key.Aero…
Flight Simulation
iniBuilds announces partnership with Microsoft
iniBuilds has partnered with the Microsoft Flight Simulator team to develop the Airbus A310, which will be available for free for owners of Microsoft Flight Simulator.
PC Pilot - Meet the Author
Welcome to the second instalment of our new series in which we introduce you to the individual members of the PC Pilot team. For this issue, we meet our only female writer, Jessica Bannister-Pearce. Jess is a multi-talented writer and over the years has built up knowledge and expertise in all aspects of the hobby.
MilViz C310R Review
This time, we take the MilViz 310R, developed for Microsoft Flight Simulator, for a spin and see how it measures up.
