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Military
The Monday Military Aviation Quiz 65
Welcome to the 65th Monday Military Aviation Quiz! How well do you know your modern military aircraft? Test your aircraft recognition skills here
Israel kicks off its largest ever multinational exercise
Israel kicked off its largest ever aerial exercise on October 17, after aircraft from the UK; France; Germany; Greece; Italy; India and the US arrived at Ovda Air Base in Eilat to participate in Exercise Blue Flag 21
An in-depth look at the Boeing E-3D Sentry in RAF service
When the Boeing E-3D Sentry entered British service in 1991, it was the end of a long saga, and the start of an even longer career. Here, Dr Kevin Wright takes a closer look at the recently retired aircraft
Taiwan validates highway airstrips amid growing tensions with China
Amid ever-growing tensions with China, Taiwan's Republic of China Air Force has validated the utility of all five of its highway airstrips in its latest annual drill, as we report
IN PICTURES: Italian Tornados whip up storm at Coningsby
Aviation enthusiasts flocked to RAF Coningsby this week to see two Italian Air Force Tornados that were operating from the Lincolnshire base on trials using the RAF Donna Nook air weapons range
Commercial
Inside one of the last remaining VFW-Fokker 614s
The VFW-Fokker 614 is famed for its misfortune. Woeful sales performance was followed by the jet being pulled from commercial service within a decade of its first flight. However, a sole example soldiers on, training next-generation engineers, as Martin Needham discovers here
Snapshot: Airliners in Libya during 2009
Chris Smith shares a glimpse of aviation in Libya from 2009, shortly before the North African state descended into revolution and civil war
The big Christmas commercial aviation quiz
Merry Christmas from all of us at KeyAero. For all the commercial aviation fans out there, here's our present to you, a 20-question bumper airliner quiz!
Historic
Development of the British Aerospace Sea Harrier
The aircraft that heralded a revolution in Royal Navy shipborne aviation
Operation Black Buck: Falklands' most daring raids?
The ‘Black Buck’ Vulcan raids have, perhaps, been the subject of more post-Falklands War debate than any other air operations mounted during the 1982 conflict. Forty years on, we analyse their effectiveness in the context of the broader Operation ‘Corporate’ campaign
How the Harrier was made into the Sea Harrier
‘Minimum change’ was the philosophy behind turning the Harrier into the Sea Harrier
Flight Simulation
Interview - DC Designs’ Concorde
DC Designs, in partnership with Just Flight, recently announced that it was developing the Aérospatiale/BAC Concorde as an add-on aircraft. Thomas Haynes spoke to Dean Crawford, founder of DC Designs, to find out more.
Orbx’s Landmarks: London City Pack
Although Microsoft Flight Simulator depicts the world as never before, the base photogrammetry has its limitations. The extrapolation of the buildings and other elements can only be as good as the Azure detection algorithm. So while there will be a structure in the correct location, it’s unlikely that it will look exactly like the real thing.
Just Flight's A300B4-200 Interview
In Part 1 of our interview with Just Flight, published in the previous issue, we discussed the work that the team had done on their 146 Professional. In this, the second part of the interview, Just Flight’s head of development, Martyn Northall talks about the upcoming A300B4-200.
