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Military
US Navy completes Poseidon transition in active-duty units
Patrol Squadron 40 (VP-40) “Fighting Marlins” has received its ninth and final Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft, completing the US Navy’s transition from the Lockheed P-3C Orion in its active-duty units.
Babcock selects GlobalRanger for Australian special forces bid
Babcock Australia has down-selected Bell’s 429 GlobalRanger as its bidding platform in the Australian Defence Force’s (ADF’s) search for a new special operations helicopter under Project LAND 2097 Phase 4.
Backing Broncos!
Blue Air Training is one of the expanding numbers of contractor air support companies in the US that are helping the military with its readiness requirements. Combat Aircraft Journal meets the company during operations at Yuma, Arizona, as it rolled out its new OV-10 Broncos.
RAF Typhoons intercept Russian Il-20M near Lithuania
Royal Air Force (RAF) Eurofighter Typhoon FGR4s – currently deployed to Lithuania in support of NATO’s Baltic Air Policing (BAP) mission – have carried out their first intercept of a Russian military aircraft.
Commercial
A fond farewell - Virgin's 747 retirement party
Virgin Atlantic jumbos have graced the skies for more than 35 years, but the pandemic has brought their career to a premature end. In December 2020, the airline threw a retirement party for its last Boeing 747. Paul Norton raised a glass on behalf of Airliner World
Readers at the ’row - Heathrow 75 picture spread
To celebrate London Heathrow’s 75th anniversary, we asked you – the Airliner World readership – to submit your pictures of the UK’s biggest airport. You heeded the call...
Historic
WATCH: What’s happening with the RAF Museum’s Vickers Wellington?
After 11 years in the Conservation Centre at Cosford, the end could finally be in sight – as Darren Priday explains…
WATCH: Pilot interviews from 2021 Battle of Britain Airshow
We speak to Spitfire pilot Antony Parkinson, and John Romain and Martin Overall from the Aircraft Restoration Company, as the 2021 Battle of Britain airshow kicks off!
Flight Simulation
Warrior II for X-Plane 11
Just Flight has informed us that its in-house development team has produced a new Warrior II for X-Plane 11.
