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Historic
USAF pilot on flying F-5Es in Europe
Former USAF pilot Jon Goldenbaum spent a memorable tour as an aggressor pilot flying F-5Es in Europe. Here are his recollections of honing the ‘dogfighting’ skills of NATO aircrews
De Havilland Canada Dash 7: STOL Airliner
Malcolm Ginsberg traces the development and career of the Dash 7 airliner...
Reinforcing the UK: USAF Cold War Fighter Deployments
From the late 1970s, the USAF’s Tactical Air Command developed detailed deployment plans to move aircraft to Europe to counter the Warsaw Pact should the Cold War heat up. Dr Kevin Wright looks at how these plans were implemented in Britain from 1978 to 1991.
Junkers Ju 252 and ‘352: Replacing Aunty Ju
The successor to the famous Ju 52/3m trimotor was the Ju 252...
Military
The incredible story of NASA's Mars Helicopter
NASA made history with the first extra-terrestrial aircraft – its incredible Mars Helicopter – to land on the Red Planet. AR Prince investigates how it got there and what happened next
USMC receives another UC-12W
Textron Aviation has delivered another Beechcraft King Air 350CER multi-mission/utility aircraft to the US Marine Corps
Leonardo to deliver E-Scan radars for German and Spanish Eurofighters
Leonardo announced on January 14 that it has signed a contract worth €260m to develop and deliver the Hensoldt-led European Common Radar System (ECRS) Mk 1 radar for German and Spanish EF-2000s
Commercial
SR Technics Secures Ukrainian Contract
Swiss-based MRO provider SR Technics has been awarded a seven-year exclusive engine maintenance contract
E190 Entry for Amaszonas
AMASZONAS LÍNEA Aérea of Bolivia is the region’s newest Embraer E-Jet customer
Flight Simulation
The Orbx roadmap: 2019 and beyond…
John Venema, the CEO of Orbx, answers a few questions regarding the Orbx Road Map for 2019 and the future as he sees it for flight simulation in general, and Orbx’s part in that future.
