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120 Years of Powered Flight

To mark the 120th anniversary of the first powered flight by the Wright brothers on December 17, 1903, this week we bring you content featuring ground-breaking aircraft that have been at the forefront of aeronautical innovation

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HANDLEY PAGE HASTINGS

The RAF’s standard long-range transport from the 1950s, a total...

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Preparing for war

In October 1952, Exercise ‘Ardent’ put the UK’s offensive and defensive capabilities to the test. Some of its results made for sobering reading

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First of the line: the Heavy and Light Types

DEVELOPMENT BLACKBURN MONOPLANES Viewed head-on at Marske...

RAF centenary celebrated

Spitfire IXT MJ627, flown by Dan Griffith with Sqn Ldr Allan...

Legion Condor Bf 109 coming together at MeierMotors

PROJECT UPDATE The Bf 109E, 6-88, shortly after the recent...

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Su-57 in Focus: 'Felon' on the Loose!

Russia’s next-gen fighter, the Sukhoi Su-57, looks as dangerous as its nickname would suggest. We chart the long gestation period preceding its unveiling in December 2020

Sikorsky-Boeing team unveils Defiant X for US Army’s FLRAA campaign

The Sikorsky-Boeing team behind the SB>1 Defiant technology demonstrator has released the first details of the Defiant X coaxial compound helicopter as its offering for the US Army’s Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) campaign

GA-ASI demos new self-protection pod on MQ-9

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has successfully completed the flight testing of a newly developed self-protection pod (SPP) on an MQ-9 remotely-piloted aircraft (RPA)

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Commercial

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Italian Air Force F-35A IOC

HEADLINES The Italian Air Force has declared initial operational...

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ATR 72-600 Delivered to Air Botswana

CIVIL NEWS Air Botswana has named its first ATR 72-600...

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Typhoon Passes 500,000 Flying Hours

MILITARY NEWS Eurofighter Eurofighter has confirmed...

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Series Production Il-76MD-90A Flown

MILITARY NEWS The first series production Il-78MD-90A,...

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Evergreen Super Sabre Restored

PRESERVATION The restoration of North American F-100F...

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