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Future Vertical Lift

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Future Vertical Lift (FVL) is a program to develop a family of helicopters for the United States Armed Forces. Four different sizes of aircraft are to be developed. They are to share common hardware such as sensors, avionics, engines, and countermeasures. The U.S. Army has been considering the program since 2004. FVL is meant to develop a replacement for the…

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Veracruz Naval Flights

USN aircraft flying over Veracruz with USN ships at anchor in the harbour. Crew about to go on an aerial flight over Veracruz. Lieutenant Bellinger’s aircraft being lowered into the water for an observation flight Lieutenant Commander Mustin went on deck to inspect the facilities required for such a mission.…

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WWII Mining the Danube

Wellington Bomber. Loading a Sea-Mine. Mining the Danube from 8th/9th April 1944 till October 1944 by the 205th RAF Bomber Group/15th US Airforce Army. After a brief spell in North Africa, by 1944 US 9th AF was based in Britain and later in liberated Western Europe, providing tactical support to…

Aircraft Soviet 12 Min Read

Lend-Lease Soviet P-47

While it is commonly known among war bird enthusiasts that the Soviet Union received large numbers of P-39 Airacobras and P-40 Warhawks, planes that many American pilots deemed to be inferior to the P-38 Lightnings and P-51 Mustangs that were flown over the Western Front,  the VVS also received approximately…

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China’s FC-31 “Gyrfalcon” fighter jet

Observers spotted China’s FC-31 “Gyrfalcon” fighter jet at a naval aviation training facility.     The FC-31 has been around for nearly 10 years without securing a role in the Chinese military.     The jet will likely replace China’s current carrier fighter, the Shenyang J-15. A fighter jet that China’s military…

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Navy’s Stingray Drone

Watch the Navy’s Stingray Drone Refuel a Fighter in Midair for the First Time The MQ-25 passed gas to a Super Hornet in a crucial test.     The MQ-25A Stingray tanker refueled another aircraft in the air for the first time.     The MQ-25A passed gas to an F/A-18F Super…

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Gothaer Waggonfabrik AG Gotha

One of the most famous German aircraft of the First World War was the twin-engined Gotha bomber built by the Gothaer Waggonfabrik Company. The origins of the company went way back before the war, when one of the first aircraft they built was of Taube (Dove) design and given the…

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Focke Wulf Fw 190D-9 Dora

Arguably, the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 evolved into wartime Germany’s most effective fighter, offering the Luftwaffe…

American Medium Bombers of WWII Part I

Douglas A-20 Havoc Douglas Aircraft developed the Model 7B twin-engine light attack bomber in the…

Spitfire XIVs versus Bf 109Ks

Final Encounter (Spitfire v Messerchmitt) by Michael Turner. Wing Commander J E Johnnie Johnson, Spitfire…

Post-war Spitfire XIV

The final Spitfire variant, the Mk 24, was similar to the Mk 22 except that…