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Historic
RAF Museum acquires Goodman medals
Expert Medal Auctioneers, Dix Noonan Webb have arranged the sale of six Second World War campaign medals that were awarded to Lancaster pilot Squadron Leader L. S. ‘Benny’ Goodman to the RAF Museum…
Fangtastic Beast: de Havilland Vampire WZ507
A recent visit to Coventry airport provided an excellent opportunity to get up close with the Vampire Preservation Group's T.II, WZ507…
USAF and RAF salute 'Mighty Eighth' Anniversary
On February 1, the US Air Force and Royal Air Force marked the 80th anniversary of the establishment of the US Eighth Air Force with a fly-over of significant locations associated with the American presence in East Anglia
Historic aviation quiz
Welcome to this week's historic aviation quiz! How fine tuned is your historic aviation knowledge? Test it here
On this day: First flight of the Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2
On this day in 1912, the Royal Aircraft Factory’s B.E.2 took to the skies for the first time…
Military
RNLAF receives final CH-47F Chinook from Boeing
Boeing has delivered the 20th and final CH-47F Chinook to the Royal Netherlands Air Force
Falcon 7X spotted in Indonesian Air Force colours
A Dassault Falcon 7X business jet wearing the markings of the Indonesian Air Force has been spotted in the Netherlands ahead of what is believed to be the aircraft’s imminent delivery to the Asian air arm
Romania inks €388m deal to buy F-16s from Norway
A contract for the sale of 32 second-hand Royal Norwegian Air Force Lockheed Martin F-16AM/BM (MLU) Fighting Falcons to Romania was signed by the Romanian government and the Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency on November 4
Commercial
WIN! LANDOR 747 Nightshoot tickets
We’ve 4 tickets (worth £40 each) to give away for Threshold.aero’s Landor 747 Nightshoot.
Closing Date: 17 September 2021
The worst landing ever? Everything that went wrong in THAT viral video
Landings are often said to be the hardest part of flying an aircraft - and one viral video doing the rounds this week illustrates just how not to do it…
BREAKING: Qatar Airways grounds 13 A350s citing “significant condition”
The Middle Eastern carrier said it will not take delivery of any more examples until the issue is resolved
When Boeing bought Airbus
Key.Aero explores the bizarre negotiation which involved Boeing buying aircraft made by its arch-rival and explains what happened to those airframes in the years that followed
Flight Simulation
UK Discovery Tour, Part 3
In the third and penultimate leg of our United Kingdom discovery tour, we depart from City Airport in Manchester and fly over several incredibly picturesque mountainous areas before finishing up in Inverness, the capital of the Scottish Highlands.
Microsoft’s World Update V: Nordics
This latest world update to the ever-expanding world of Microsoft Flight Simulator encompasses the Nordic countries of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland.
AuthentiKit - An innovative modular flight control system
We look at a new set of controls that faithfully replicated those found in the Supermarine Spitfire Mk.IX, designed by a company called AuthentiKit.
