Military Aircraft News

Pictured at the unveiling are Ron Harper, formerly of RAF V Bomber Force; Gordon Millar, formerly of the Royal Observer Corps, Heritage trust chairman Alan Doe, Kenneth Bannerman, heritage centre treasurer Bob Sutherland and Rev Ian McLean.

Where are we going? This country used to be the biggest and the best in the world.

National Guard helicopters that spend hundreds of hours in the air during the growing season looking for clandestine marijuana grows could be on the ground more often next year under Obama administration budget proposals under protest by Oregon sheriffs and member of Congress.

Falls Church-based DynCorp International LLC has won a $92.6 million task order to provide the Air Force with aircraft maintenance support, Govcon Wire reported.

The winners of two Facebook contests will get an up-close encounter with the pilots of six vintage World War II planes and their pilots Wednesday at Republic Airport.

" American Patriot " on: Deficit Commission: Cancel Marine Corps Version of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and Several Other Weapons A new proposal by the Pentagon to change the wording of a contracting statute could save taxpayers billions of dollars .

CEO Jeff Parker says in a statement that the company is in shock after losing two pilots in unrelated accidents in less than 100 days.

Mini-pilots Eva Scott , Thomas Fox , Corin Woodhead , and Olivia Urquhart-McKendry from Athelstaneford Primary with Justine Sharpe getting ready for this year's Airshow at the National Museum of Flight.

Up close, the Eurofighter Typhoon is an exotic, beautiful machine that seems seamless, as if carved from a single block of a light, grey material.

A privately owned jet contracted by the military to play the enemy in training exercises crashed May 18 in a Southern California farm field, killing the civilian pilot, authorities said.

China 's government has failed to curb manufacturing of counterfeit military electronic parts by Chinese companies that are the "dominant source" of fakes in the U.S. defense supply chain, a Senate investigation found.

New Delhi, May 21: Ahead of finalising a multi-billion contract with French firm Dassault Aviation for 126 Rafale combat planes, the Indian Air Force chief, Air Chief Marshal Norman Anil Kumar Browne, left for France Monday on a four-day official visit to explore ways to expand bilateral military relations.

Russia's air force will acquire a new ground attack aircraft similar in concept to the Sukhoi Su-25, but has dropped plans to field an armed version of the Yakovlev Yak-130 jet/combat trainer.

Alton D. Romig Jr. heads Lockheed Martin's weapons-development facility in Palmdale, Calif., dubbed "Skunk Works," which got its nickname because the plant used to be next to one with a pronounced odor.

The Inland Empire Aviation Roundtable is set to meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 22, at the March Field Air Museum, 22550 Van Buren Blvd.

Officials have identified the pilot of a military-contracted jet who was killed Friday when his aircraft crashed into a Southern California farm field as he completed a training exercise.

By far the biggest defence acquisition programme in Brazil is the air force's plans to initially purchase 36 airframes to fulfil the country's F-X Multi-Role Combat Aircraft requirement.

A fighter jet that crashed into a Camarillo, Calif., field Friday afternoon, killing the pilot, was owned by a Newport News -based private contractor and was returning from a training mission.

This B-2 Spirit, "Spirit of New York," has been in service since the early 1990s.

For thirteen-year-old Madison Davidson AirFest 2012 held this weekend at March Air Reserve in Moreno Valley was her thirteenth air show.