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Historic
Showing the flag
This year sees the centenary of an exceptional event in Italian aeronautical history...
The 'Lanc' effect
Despite the hopes of the bomber advocates and the fears of many others, the start of World War Two did not see one or two knock-out blows by bomber aircraft pulverising key elements of any combatant nation. No cities were flattened, and even into the May 1940 German advance bombing attacks were crucial only when combined with the threat or use of ground forces.
THE AEROPLANE News from March 1940
Ben Dunnell looks back 80 years to see how The Aeroplane covered momentous events of 1940...
Military
Identity revealed for joint QEAF-British Hawk unit
In a ceremony at RAF Leeming on November 24, it was announced that the QEAF-British Hawk training squadron being established at the Yorkshire base will be known as 11 Squadron (Qatar)
100 ARW receives Block 45 KC-135
The 100th Air Refueling Wing (ARW) at RAF Mildenhall, Suffolk, has received its first KC-135R Block 45 Stratotanker
First Spanish Air Force A330-200 is delivered
The first of three Airbus A330-200 (local Spanish designation T-24) aircraft ordered by the Ejército del Aire (Spanish Air Force) was delivered on November 30
Commercial
IDAG orders three MD 350F helicopters
IDAG orders three MD 350F helicopters The three new MD530Fs...