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Historic
The Last Viking NASA’s S-3B
Tom Kaminski examines the NASA career of the final Lockheed S-3B Viking in service...
Air New Zealand: From southern skies to the world
Celebrating 80 years of operation this year, Air New Zealand traces its lineage...
Battle of Britain Fighter Squadrons: Five of the few
The RAF’s Fighter Command fielded 66 squadrons during the Battle of Britain, but their fortunes were very different. Tom Spencer explores the part that five of them played in the historic campaign.
East German MiG-21s: Cold War Fishbeds - Part 2
The East German Air Force’s MiG-21s were key to the defence of the GDR...
Military
Protector passes system testing milestone
Royal Air Force Protector RG1 Remotely Piloted Air System (RPAS) development has passed another key milestone in the project with completion of a series of system level tests by its manufacturer, General Atomics- Aeronautical Systems Inc (GA-ASI)
Royal Thai Air Force F-5THF Super Tigris lost in crash
A Royal Thai Air Force F-5THF Super Tigris crashed at 1100hrs local time on December 3 while performing a four-ship training flight over the Chandy Range in Lopburi
Final WTD61 Transall flight
German Luftwaffe (Air Force) Transall C160D 50+86, the last of the type operated by Wehrtechnische Dienststelle 61 (WTD61, Bundeswehr Technical Center for Aircraft and Aeronautical Equipment) at Manching, has made its final flight
Commercial
What’s the latest on the Korean Air-Asiana Airlines merger?
Following the announcement in November, the flag carrier’s president has shed some light on the progress and its plans for the highly anticipated acquisition
Ten things we miss about flying (and few we don’t)
It’s been so long since many of us have stepped on board an aircraft that we’ve all probably forgotten what we even liked about travelling in the first place. Here are ten things that we think help to make flying so much fun
The only remaining division of the original Pan Am still operating today
Since its bankruptcy in 1991, the iconic American carrier has been missed by many. But there is one last remaining division that survived and is still operating to this day, as Key.Aero details
Flight Simulation
New Flight One Software Purchase Agent Platform
The Flight One Software wrapper is well known by many and has served the industry well.
