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Historic
Airworthy Spitfire bound for Turkey
Flying museum at Sivrihisar to receive combat veteran MkIX after restoration
FlyPast First Edition May-June 1981
As FlyPast's 500th issue (March 2023) hits the shelves, KEY.aero are offering subscribers the chance to catch up on the very first issue of the magazine...
Duxford to host History Festival in March
Duxford's history festival will allow enthusiasts to ‘experience their own immersive, history-filled programme meeting real war veterans’
105-year-old Fleet Air Arm veteran interview
Ronny Scott was one of more than 2,000 Argentine volunteers who joined the British forces in World War Two. Today, aged 105, he is among the oldest surviving Fleet Air Arm veteran pilots. But he still has a vivid memory of his aviation career
Carden-Baynes Bee: the complete story
As it turned out, a pusher twin using modified car engines, with its undercarriage almost entirely within the fuselage and a wing that rotated for storage, wasn’t a viable light aeroplane — but there was method in the Baynes Bee’s apparent madness
Military
Final USMC TAV-8B to complete overhaul returns to VMA-223
Another major milestone in the drawing down of the USMC’s McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II programme has been passed by the US Navy’s Fleet Readiness Center East (FRCE) after it recently completed the final overhaul of the last dual-seat TAV-8B fighter-trainer at MCAS Cherry Point in North Carolina
RAF C-130J Hercules farewell tour + watch final Mach Loop pass
Three RAF C-130Js performed a tour of the UK on June 14, flying over locations that have been significant to the Hercules in RAF service
First ‘Block II’ E-6B Mercury delivered to US Navy
The US Navy accepted its first upgraded E-6B Mercury on June 6, when pilots from the service’s Strategic Communications Wing 1 flew the newly enhanced aircraft from Northrop Grumman’s Aircraft Maintenance and Fabrication Center in Lake Charles, Louisiana, to Tinker AFB, Oklahoma
Commercial
Sitting down with Emirates Airline president Sir Tim Clark
As Emirates president Sir Tim Clark prepares to retire from his full-time role, he sits down with Andreas Spaeth to reflect on a fascinating 50 years in the airline business.
Insight: The popularity of premium economy class
In this month’s number-crunching insight, James Mellon, senior aviation data research analyst at Cirium, ponders the continued rise of premium economy class.
Learn why Lithuania’s airports are flying high
Despite headwinds from the war in Ukraine and airspace closures over neighbouring Belarus, Lithuania’s airports are emerging from the pandemic in remarkably robust shape, as Tom Batchelor and Gordon Smith discover.
Has Delta just become Boeing 797 launch customer?
Is there more to Delta Air Lines' Boeing 737 MAX order than meets the eye?
Flight review: KLM’s brand-new Premium Comfort cabin
After years of development and more than a decade of feverish industry speculation, it’s finally here. On August 31, KLM launched Premium Comfort, its first clean-sheet cabin concept since World Business Class arrived on the scene in 1994.
Flight Simulation
Venom takes flight in MSFS
Aircraft developer, SwissMilSim has released the de Havilland Venom DH-112 MK 4 for Microsoft Flight Simulator.
St Barts for Microsoft Flight Simulator released
Airworthy Designs has announced St Barts for Microsoft Flight Simulator is now available.
Buffalo Niagara Airport for X-Plane released
Scenery developer, iniScene has announced KBUF Buffalo Niagara Airport for X-Plane 11 and 12 is now available.
