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Historic
Newark Air Museum outlines restoration aims for 2024
The Nottinghamshire attraction will be focusing on two Avro airframes (among several others) and will also repaint their Hunter T7 into a Blue Diamonds scheme
Red Arrows fly with Gnat to mark 60th anniversary
A Folland Gnat has recently flown in formation with the RAF’s Red Arrows to help mark the team’s 60th display season
‘Baby’ Draken refurbished as full-size example loaned to new museum
Unique Saab 210 Draken set to emerge from restoration in Linköping
Historic Aviation Quiz: Multi-engines of the 1940s
Can you identify these lesser known multi-engine type's from the 1940s?
Saab B 17 joins Swedish historic flight
Late last year the distinctive Saab was passed into the hands of a new operator
Military
First Royal Canadian Air Force CE-145C Vigilance arrives
The Royal Canadian Air Force’s (RCAF’s) No 8 Wing celebrated the arrival of the first of three new King Air 350ER manned airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (MAISR) aircraft to Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Trenton in Ontario on February 23, writes Tom Kaminski.
‘Buzzards’ F-16CM pays homage to 31st FW
The 31st Fighter Wing (FW) at Aviano Air Base in northern Italy – a part of US Air Forces in Europe and Air Forces-Africa (USAFE-AFAFRICA) command – has rolled out new special tail art for its flagship F-16CM Fighting Falcon.
‘Wolf Pack’ honours Op Bolo
An F-16CM (89-2060/WP) assigned to the 35th FS ‘Pantons’ – part of the USAF’s 8th FW ‘Wolf Pack’ at Kunsan AB, South Korea – has received special two-tone South-East Asia (SEA) camouflage tail.
Commercial
New airline takes off in Tehran
Iran gained another air carrier in early February when AVA Airlines commenced operations.
How a fuel emergency forced a 757 to land on closed runway
Icelandic air accident investigators have concluded a probe into a low-fuel incident which saw an Icelandair Boeing 757-200 land on a closed runway at Keflavik Airport.
American Airlines’ trio of aircraft orders
American Airlines announced orders for 260 new aircraft, including 85 Airbus A321neos, 85 Boeing 737 MAX 10s and 90 Embraer E175 aircraft.
JetBlue and Spirit cancel $3.8bn merger
JetBlue Airways and Spirit Airlines announced on March 4 that they had reached an agreement to terminate a July 2022 merger agreement after the proposed deal was blocked by a US judge in January on anti-competition grounds.
ULTIMATE ONEWORLD ALLIANCE QUIZ!
On February 1, the Oneworld alliance celebrated its 25th anniversary. In honour of this milestone for this week’s quiz we test your knowledge of one of the world’s premium airline alliances. Best of luck!
Flight Simulation
Tobii Eye Tracker 5
In this review, we look at the latest generation of head and eye-tracking technology.
DCS: Spitfire LF Mk. IX
Welcome to the start of a new mini-series in which we take a look at the DCS: Spitfire LF Mk. IX - using a compilation of previous articles. The aim is to help you get the most out of this superb DCS module in one convenient series.
London Control update
An updated version of the London Control air traffic control simulator, produced by Dale McLoughlin at DM Aviation, is now available.
