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Historic
Inside Stories: Bartered Bombers
João Paulo Moralez and Marcelo Ribeiro reveal the history and curiosities of the Brazilian Air Force’s first jet – the Gloster Meteor. It’s a story that entails trade deals, exploding canopies and even eradicating spiders…
Above and Beyond: Hugh James
The efforts of transport pilot Hugh ‘Jimmy’ James to save passengers on his aircraft...
B-17 at 85: Mediterranean Mud-Movers
Boeing’s B-17 Flying Fortress is most celebrated for its strategic...
Inside Stories: Beast of the Border
A Russian Sturmovik sent to attack German-held bridges in Norway...
Military
Russian 'Bear' cockpit video shows RAF Typhoon intercept
Incredible in-cockpit footage released by Russia's MOD shows RAF Typhoons shadowing Russian 'Bears'.
Uncovering Russia's diverse fleet of sophisticated tactical air defence systems
We analyse the ground-based air defence platforms employed by the Russian military to protect land forces from air attacks and he highlights differences between the systems used by Russia and the NATO alliance
DARPA targets AI assistant for US rotary pilots
Northrop Grumman has been awarded a contract from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Perceptually-enabled Task Guidance programme to develop a prototype artificial intelligence assistant
Commercial
Northern Runway Plans for Gatwick
London/Gatwick Airport has made formal proposals to use the facility’s...
’Raspberry Ripple’ Phantom Finds New Home
McDonnell Douglas Phantom FG.1 XT597 has been sold to Mark Abbott,...
Flight Simulation
X-Plane: Configuring Controls - Part 1
Following on from our previous tutorial on how to install third-party add-ons, this issue we are going to take a look at setting up joystick controllers.