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Historic
Canadian ‘Stringbag’ for the UK
Pictured at Oshkosh in July 2011, on one of its last flying appearances...
Military
Japanese military pilots to be trained in Italy
In addition to Qatar and Germany, Japan has now agreed to send its military pilots to the Italian Air Force’s and Leonardo’s International Flight Training School (IFTS) for operational training
RAF A400M is air-to-air refuelled for the first time
A RAF Airbus A400M Atlas C1, serial ‘ZM406’, has been refuelled whilst airborne for the first time. This milestone was achieved during recent trials conducted by 206 Squadron. The squadron is the test and evaluation squadron for heavy aircraft of the UK defence stationed at RAF Brize Norton, Oxford
Eielson AFB F-35s take part in air-to-air weapons evaluation
The 356th Fighter Squadron (FS) made history as the first Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II squadron in the Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) to take part in an air-to-air weapons evaluation
Commercial
Upgraded Backfires Soldier On
Russia is upgrading the Tupolev Tu-22M3 bomber to remain in service...
Bell 429s Withdrawn by RAN
The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) has retired its Bell 429 GlobalRangers...
Flight Simulation
Flight Sim Labs A320-X
The A320 is an incredibly complex aircraft and to try to replicate that inside FSX is insanely difficult. Working backwards to produce a flyable aircraft is rather like herding cats – potentially fantastic, but probably a bit fruitless. Flight Sim Labs however like fruitless. The question is, how good is its A320?
Worldflight 2016
Team Jet Sim took on a challenge to virtually circumnavigate the globe in a full-sized Boeing 737-800 simulator in seven days
Gazelle out now!
For helicopter fans out there, MP Design Studio has released the Aerospatiale Gazelle SA342 for FSX and Prepar3D.
