Meg Godlewski has been an aviation journalist for more than 25 years and a CFI for more than 21 years. If she is not flying or teaching aviation, she is writing about it. Meg is a founding member of the Pilot...
U.S. Air Force Airmen conduct sling-load training with an HH-60W Jolly Green II at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia, Aug. 29, 2024. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Leonid Soubbotine) Moody AFB leverages HH-60W Jolly Green II’s sling load capabilities...
The Utah National Guard AH-64D (screenshot from the FOX 13 video) An F-35 pilot with only 35 minutes of experience in an Apache simulator was flying the Utah National Guard Apache that crashed earlier this year. On Feb. 12, 2024, a...
An AH-64E Apache Guardian helicopter conducts nap of the earth flight during a capabilities demonstration at Fort Rucker, Alabama on Oct. 27, 2022. (US Army/Lt. Col Andy Thaggard) As armored and ‘maneuver warfare’ emerges in Europe, the one weapon that can...
A rendering of one of the possible concepts by Airbus for the NGRC program. (Image credit: Airbus) The NATO Support and Procurement Agency contracted Airbus Helicopters, Sikorsky and Leonardo to identify and exploit cutting-edge technologies for the Next Generation Rotorcraft Capability...
A USMC AH-1Z attack helicopter from the Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 262 fires an AGM-179 JAGM during an expeditionary (EXPO) strike off the coast of Okinawa on Jun. 26, 2024. This EXPO strike launched the first JAGM off an AH-1Z in...
A RoC Army OH-58D Kiowa Warrior in 2014 during a public demonstration. (Image credit: Wikimedia Commons) The lighter OH-58D was designed to fly ahead, scout and locate targets for the heavily armed AH-64 Apache. Taiwan’s Army Aviation and Special Forces command...
The AW609 Landing on Italian Carrier ITS Cavour (Image Credit: Leonardo) The AW609 completed the first shipboard trials with the support of the Italian Navy. From April 3 to April 12, 2024, the AW609 AC4 aircraft, representing the final production configuration...
The prototype of the NH90 Standard 2 in flight. (Image credit: Airbus) The two programs are part of the NH90 evolution roadmap and constitute a major upgrade in terms of capabilities for the European helicopter. Airbus announced the beginning of the...
U.S. Marines flying a CH-53K King Stallion heavy-lift helicopter transported an F-35C Lightning II airframe from the F-35 Integrated Test Force at Patuxent River (Pax ITF) to a Navy unit located at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, April 24. (Photo by...
