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Military
Eurofighter Typhoon HX Challenge Update
Amid a strategy that sets out new capabilities in a bid to garner potential new sales, Combat Aircraft Journal evaluates the latest developments for the Eurofighter Typhoon.
USAF E-11A BACN crashes in Afghanistan
A US Air Force (USAF) operated E-11A Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN) - registration 11-9358 (c/n 9358) has crashed in Afghanistan.
Dynetics’ X-61A Gremlin completes first flight
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Dynetics have announced the successful first test flight of the X-61A Gremlin.
UK orders additional H145 training helicopters
The UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) has ordered an additional four new Airbus Helicopters H145 Jupiter HT1 training helicopters.
F-35s depart RAF Marham for Exercise RED FLAG
Five Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightnings from the RAF’s famed No 617 Squadron ‘Dambusters' have departed the UK to take part in Exercise Red Flag 20-1 at Nellis Air Force Base (AFB), Nevada.
Commercial
Southwest reveals 737 MAX return plans
Following the decision by the FAA to un-ground the jet, the American low-cost carrier set out its approach to getting the type back in the sky
The only airline in North Korea
Dubbed the “worst airline” in the world, Air Koryo’s reputation as the North Korean flag carrier is formidable just by its association with the country. Key.Aero recounts the history of this very unique operator
Why Wizz Air A321 aborted take-off at V1
An AAIB report finds that pitot probes had become blocked by something the size of a grain of rice…
Historic
Soviet Spitfire flies ‘bombed-up’
A sight not seen over the UK since the end of the war, as Peter...