NASA photo of X-15 test pilot Joe Engle (Image credit: NASA – the image was digitally altered to fit the 16:9 form factor) Joe Engle’s Remarkable Career Bridged Gap Between Air and Space, Broke Records. Astronaut, X-15 test pilot and space...
Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), from Skyways and PteroDynamics, sit on the flight deck of the Arleigh-Burke class guided-missile destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG 54), Jun. 25, 2024. (Image credit: US Navy/Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Jesse Monford) The responsibility of ferrying...
An F/A-18F Super Hornet, assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 25, launches off the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) in the South China Sea, June 10, 2024. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist...
Personnel from the USS Eisenhower’s Weapons Department posing with some of the air launched weapons available to the Carrier Air Wing. (Image credit: Capt. Chris Hill) Among the showcased weapons there is also the rarely seen GBU-56 Laser JDAM with the...
Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks on the phone with US President Joe Biden from his office in 10 Downing Street. The box on the right shows a file photo of Biden talking on the phone inside a C-32 (Image credit: The...
An Italian F-2000A Typhoon takes off for a training mission. (All images credit: Stefano D’Urso/The Aviationist) The Ministry of Defense requested the government’s approval for the acquisition of the 4th tranche of the European fighter jet, effectively launching the acquisition process....
A KC-46A Pegasus with Wing Aerial Refueling Pods attached takes off March 13, 2024, from McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas. This was McConnell’s first test flight with the pods, which allow the KC-46 to refuel two fighter aircraft at once. (U.S....
The first Slovak-owned F-16 Block 70 arrives at Morris Air National Guard Base, Ariz., June 13, 2024. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Guadalupe Beltran) The Arizona Air National Guard has received its first of nine Slovak F-16 Block...
F/A-18E of VFA-192 carrying two air-launched SM-6 missiles (Image credit: @aeros808) The two missiles sport the designation XAIM-174B and were carried by Super Hornets belonging to the VFA-2 and VFA-192 taking part in RIMPAC 2024 exercise. On Jul. 2, 2024, an...
The Sabreliner test aircraft with the F-22’s stealthy pod installed below the fuselage. (Image credit: @SR_Planespotter) The pod has reportedly undergone testing in the NTTR with the NT-43 aircraft used to validate low observable technology. Few months after the first sighting...