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Embraer C-390 Millennium: the best military airlift solution

When Embraer decided to develop a new military multi-role transport aircraft, the main requirements were that the aircraft should combine flexibility, advanced technology with maximum operational suitability and high productivity. The result? The C-390 Millennium.

WIN A Spitfire Flight worth £2975!

Flypast, Aeroplane Monthly and Britain at War magazines have teamed up with Spitfires.com to give one lucky reader the chance to win a flight in a Spitfire.

US Army ‘Night Stalkers’ special ops helicopters to visit UK for month-long exercise

The US Army’s 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne), known as the Night Stalkers, is to visit the UK for an exercise running throughout September.

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A final top-up with 57 Squadron

Malcolm English was privileged to join 57 Squadron for an air-to-air refuelling sortie just before the unit retired its long-serving Handley Page Victor K.2s

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Playing the Enemy

Davide Daverio goes behind the scenes with VFC-204 ‘River Rattlers’ in New Orleans to discover how the ‘aggressor’ unit operates

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Caproni Ca 310 coming together in Norway

The only surviving Caproni Ca 310 twin-engine reconnaissance machine is now approaching the end of a lengthy restoration in the workshops of the Flyhistorisk Museum at Sola, south-western Norway.

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Phantom made ready for memorial display

A group of veterans in Lena, Illinois, is close to completing the restoration of McDonnell Douglas F-4E Phantom 68-0450.

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Mildenhall KC-135 named ‘High Life’ after B-17

Eighty-one years to the day that Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress ‘High Life’ flew its last mission, a ceremony was held recently at RAF Mildenhall to unveil artwork on a Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker based on that worn by the World War Two bomber