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Historic

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Glory Days: Aerial Battering Rams

Dr Alfred Price was one of the foremost aviation historians...

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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…

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Above and Beyond: Hugh James

The efforts of transport pilot Hugh ‘Jimmy’ James to save passengers on his aircraft...

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B-17 at 85: Mediterranean Mud-Movers

Boeing’s B-17 Flying Fortress is most celebrated for its strategic...

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Inside Stories: Beast of the Border

A Russian Sturmovik sent to attack German-held bridges in Norway...

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Military

Russian 'Bear' cockpit video shows RAF Typhoon intercept

Incredible in-cockpit footage released by Russia's MOD shows RAF Typhoons shadowing Russian 'Bears'.

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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

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Commercial

Northern Runway Plans for Gatwick

London/Gatwick Airport has made formal proposals to use the facility’s...

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BOAC’s Flying Boats

Charles Woodley tells the story of BOAC’s flying boat services...

Wizz Adds Southend Services

London Southend Airport is soon to be connected to several new...

APM Simba Certified

French company Issoire Aviation has announced the EASA certification...

’Raspberry Ripple’ Phantom Finds New Home

McDonnell Douglas Phantom FG.1 XT597 has been sold to Mark Abbott,...

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Flight Simulation

PC Pilot Issue 121 Letters

Here's a round up of letters PC Pilot has lately received

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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.

True Earth GB North for X-Plane

Orbx’s TrueEarth Great Britain North for X-Plane...

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Upcoming Events

MCAS Cherry Point Air Show

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Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, United States

US Marine Corps airshow

Duxford Flying Day: 19 Squadron

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Cambridge, United Kingdom

The event webpage states: "Uncover the story of the legendary 19 Squadron, the fighter pilots who made Spitfire history at Dunkirk and throughout the Battle of Britain at Flying Days: 19 Squadron. Enjoy a special themed display, providing an afternoon of over an hour of scheduled flying, on top of your great day out at IWM Duxford."

Light Aircraft Association Rally

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Leicester, United Kingdom

Light aircraft event

Dover AFB - First State Airshow

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Dover AFB, United States

US Air Force airshow

Royal International Air Tattoo

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Fairford, United Kingdom

The themes this year for RIAT are '50 Years F-16', 'NATO 75th Anniversary', '100th Anniversary of the Royal Canadian Air Force' and 'Pushing the boundaries in Air and Space'. Regarding the final one in the list the RIAT website states: "Our main theme will highlight the important work of Flight Test & Evaluation in modern aviation, looking back at 100 years of British military test flying. We hope to display specialised, modified and instrumented test flight aircraft from organisations from around the world dedicated to Flight Test, Evaluation and Scientific Research."

Offutt AFB - Defenders of Freedom Air and Space Show

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Bellevue, United States

US Air Force airshow