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Historic

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Successful engine run for Gatwick’s Shackleton

Gatwick Aviation Museum fired up Avro Shackleton MR.3 WR982 recently....

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’Parky’ makes his last flight with the BBMF

The RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight’s Flt Lt Antony ‘Parky’...

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Wartime Harvard being returned to flight

Matthew Boddington runs the engine of Harvard G-CPPM at Bruntingthorpe...

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Luck be a Lady

Steve Grivno concludes the story of the exploits of Crew 10 and...

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Setting the pace

Andy Hay artwork of a race-winning Harrier jump jet Harrier...

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Military

Celebrating the Galaxy: Part Two

In the second of a two part interview, Key.Aero speaks with Col Brian Trumble, the commander of the 22nd AS 'Mulies', about the capabilities and the future of the USAF's C-5 Galaxy force, 50 years after the platform first entered operational service.

USAF deploys six B-52s to RAF Fairford

Six US Air Force (USAF) B-52H Stratofortress bombers – belonging to the 5th Bomb Wing (BW) at Minot Air Force Base (AFB), North Dakota – deployed to RAF Fairford, UK, on August 22.

USAF bases cover more area than Scotland and Wales combined

Eglin AFB in Florida alone is bigger than Greater London: these are the incredible stats that illustrate the military aviation might of America

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Commercial

Netherlands signs for Reapers

The Koninklijke Luchtmacht MQ-9 Block 5s will have the same strengthened...

China’s J-15 replacement?

CHINA IN EARLY July a report in the Southern China Morning...

FireHerc

A new civil-certified fire-fighting variant of the C-130J is...

Are there enough pilots?

IT IS easy to be swept along by the numbers of commercial aircraft...

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Boeing Orders Interest from Russian Carriers

CIVIL NEWS The Boeing 737 MAX is proving to be a popular choice...

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