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Historic
Hawker Hurricane: The Robust Contender
Hawker’s Hurricane was pivotal to Britain’s aerial defence in the Battle of Britain. In the first of our new mini-series on BoB types in this 80th anniversary year, Malcolm V Lowe recounts the Hurricane’s importance during the summer of 1940
Installing an English Electric Lightning for display
Max Waldron details the installation of a restored English Electric Lightning at a company facility in Bristol
Airborne Lensmen
Kev Baxter explores an option that allows aviation enthusiasts the chance to photograph aircraft in the sky...
Snooping Elephants
The 20th Combat Mapping Squadron, known as the ‘Flying Dumbos’, operated F-7A Liberator reconnaissance aircraft in the southwest Pacific
theatre during World War Two...
Military
USMC begins transition to the CH-53K
The US Marine Corps’ Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 461 has become the first unit to transition from the CH-53E Super Stallion to the new CH-53K King Stallion
IN PICTURES: VMFA-314 'Black Knights' F-35Cs at NAS Fallon
During May 2021, the ‘Black Knights’ joined the other three fighter/attack squadrons of CVW-9, the ‘Tophatters’ of VFA-14, the ‘Black Aces’ of VFA-41 and the ‘Vigilantes’ of VFA-151 for their Strike Fighter Advanced Readiness Program (SFARP) deployment to NAS Fallon in Nevada
Royal Australian Air Force Tigers hit the desert for training with USMC
The Australian Army’s 162 Squadron traveled half way across the world to take part in the USMC’s Weapons and Tactics Instructor Course – and found that some of the training conditions were more familiar than others
Commercial
South African to Lease A350s from Air Mauritius
When, in a June 30 press release, South African Airways (SAA) confirmed it would lease a pair of Airbus A350-900s, very little was detailed about the carrier’s acquisition. Airliner World has since learned that the two jets will be handed over to the airline as part of Air Mauritius’ order for six examples, placed at the 2014 Farnborough International Airshow.
MAX PAIN Grappling with the Grounding
Airliner World’s Martin Needham investigates how some of the...
Flight Simulation
DCS: AV-8B Night Attack V/STOL
RAZBAM has announced that its DCS: AV-8B Night Attack V/STOL is now available as an open beta.
