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Historic
5 Sqn Boss: My eventful career flying the English Electric Lightning
From having a missile blow up in front of him to being thrown into an inverted dive by a Vulcan tanker, Wing Commander Mike Streten (Ret’d), a former Officer Commanding 5 Sqn at RAF Binbrook, had an eventful career. For the August 2016 issue of Aviation News, Dino Carrara interviewed Wg Cdr Streten about his time flying the legendary English Electric Lightning
Did the TSR2, P1154 and AW681 really "get the politics wrong"?
Hawker’s Sir Sydney Camm once mused, “All aircraft have four dimensions: span, length, height and politics. TSR2 simply got the first three right”. But was he correct?
Comment: The sorry story of the Cornwall Aviation Heritage Centre's impending demise
Newquay Airport museum on the brink of closure as council refuses to budge
Can you help a Spitfire recovery?
Crowd-funding appeal started with aim of bringing MkVb AD377 up from its Norfolk resting-place
Military
Net zero by 2040: RAF chief's ambitious plan to go green examined
Air Chief Marshal Sir Mike Wigston, the RAF’s most senior officer, has steered his service through a period of great change, and his tenure as Chief of the Air Staff has not been without controversy and criticism – but nor has it been without achievement. Jon Lake reports.
New Zealand’s multirole military Boeing 757s
For 20 years the Royal New Zealand Air Force has operated two Boeing 757s. The aircraft have performed many and varied missions from Antarctica to the Pacific Islands, and from the Middle East to Europe, but a replacement is overdue. Jim Winchester reports
Commercial
Red Bull “Plane Swap” stunt goes wrong as aircraft spirals out of control
A stunt sponsored by Red Bull involving two pilots swapping aircraft mid-flight went wrong when one of the planes went out of control and crashed.
Which airline recently celebrated 50 years of flying to the USA?
50th anniversary inbound! Find out which international airline has just recently celebrated half a century of flying to the USA – back in 1972, its first US services consisted of just two routes flown by the iconic Boeing 707. Can you guess? No need, just find out here…
Which airport completed runway resurfacing in a national record time?
An airport with an 11,500ft-long runway took just 75 days to finish resurfacing work - the amount of asphalt laid was equivalent to a 200km-long road! But, which airport in what country you ask – find out here!
QUIZ: British Airways - Seats across the fleet!
As the aviation world springs back to life, it's high time for a test which will sort the British Airways aficionados from the BA bunglers! All data is as supplied via British Airways and represents the maximum passenger capacity, unless otherwise stated. Good luck!
Pilots to SWAP aircraft in incredible Red Bull stunt
Red Bull is known for its daredevil stunts and tomorrow two of its athletes will attempt something the company says has never been done before: pilots swapping aircraft mid-flight. Key.Aero sits down with one of them to find out more
Flight Simulation
DCS: F-100D Super Sabre in development
Eagle Dynamics has announced a new third-party developer, Grinnelli Designs, is working on the F-100D Super Sabre for DCS.
Redhill Aerodrome for Microsoft Flight Simulator out now
Scenery developer, Burning Blue Design’s has announced EGKR Redhill Aerodrome for Microsoft Flight Simulator is out now.
Mount Patterson Camps for Microsoft Flight Simulator
Developed by //42, Mount Patterson Camps for Microsoft Flight Simulator features three BLM landing areas in Mono County, California in the Sweetwater Range, all terraformed with custom textures and elevation mesh.
