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Historic
Bolingbroke restoration to begin in new Bristol workshop
Aerospace Bristol has announced plans to open a Conservation-in-Action workshop...
Shuttleworth Collection uncovered
Shuttleworth Collection at Old Warden, Bedfordshire, opened the doors of its engineering workshop...
Unique Hawk and Tornado arrive in Yorkshire
Jet Art Aviation (JAA) ended last year on a high with the arrival of two rare airframes...
Fortune favours the old
No Hawker aircraft has remained operationally viable for as long as the Hunter...
Hawker - The early years
There was a time in the 1930s when Hawker aeroplanes made up more than 80 per cent of the RAF's front-line inventory...
Military
Israel moves forward with CH-53K acquisition
Israel’s quest for the Sikorsky CH-53K King Stallion has moved forward after the Israeli Air Force signed a Letter of Acceptance agreement with the US government on December 30 to purchase the heavy-lift transport helicopter
New UK military ATM system operational
A new Air Traffic Management (ATM) system is up and running at RAF Shawbury, with variants of the system intended to be rolled out across more than 60 UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) sites
China to enhance aerial refuelling capabilities with new Y-20U tanker
We examine China's new Xi'an Y-20U tanker aircraft, which stretched its legs for the first time during a probe of Taiwan's ADIZ in late 2021, and details how the new platform will boost the PLAAF's air-to-air refueling capabilities
Commercial
SUPER HORNET TACTICAL DEMONSTRATION TEAM
The US Navy has decided that the SUPER HORNET TACTICAL DEMONSTRATION...
Planes, Names and Noses: KC-135s of the 100th ARW
The link between the wartime 100th Bomb Group and its current successor, the 100th Air Refueling Wing has been reinforced by the adoption of wartime nose art. Bob Archer describes how the current KC-135 tankers pay tribute to the B-17s of the ‘Bloody Hundredth.’
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