Search

By Andreas Spaeth 13th May 2023

… with a huge range of missions over the decades. From search and rescue efforts and oil spill responses through to …

By Steve Beebee 27th October 2022

… highlights.” XJ729 first flew in 1956 and operated in a search and rescue capacity with 22 Squadron from RAF St …

By Peter Felstead 8th January 2023

… to fly to a pre-defined area, where it can loiter and search for hostile air-defence radars to attack using its … operation after flying to its preprogrammed search area. While the Harpy and Harop both weigh around …

By Joe Lavery 13th February 2023

… I also feel it‘s more interesting to stumble across or search for these handcrafted structures and then perhaps turn …

By Igor Bozinovski 3rd January 2023

… Major Howard J. Curran for whom the US launched a Search and Rescue operation that was given up five days later …

By Charlie Clark 23rd March 2023

… used when radar doesn’t work is, of course, the infrared search and track system (IRST) fitted to both the Lockheed …

By Tom Kaminski 22nd November 2022

… surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) and combat search and rescue (CSAR) aircraft. Additionally, it often … (AEW&C) platform was completed in January 2022. Combat search and rescue/personnel recovery (CSAR/PR) units assigned … capability for both military and civil aviation search and rescue needs in the Alaska search and rescue …

By Malcolm V Lowe 9th February 2023

… carried out by all the main ‘Growler’ squadrons, that of search and rescue – 205 Squadron having a vast amount of …

By Ben Dunnell 26th June 2023

… an hour behind schedule, and we had some friends in the search and rescue mob in Iceland primed to launch if we were …

By Joe Campion 2nd February 2023

… and altering a number of mission profiles. During the search for new solutions, the unit found the USAF …

By JAMES KIGHTLY 26th August 2023

… Hugh Trenchard, he left to rejoin the RAF . While the search for a test pilot was under way, the aircraft underwent …

By James Peene 22nd September 2022

On September 18, 2022 at Monte Real AB annual open gates day, a newly restored F-86F Sabre was presented in silver with red nose, wing and tail tips, as per the colour scheme of the short-lived Esquadra 52 “Galos” (Roosters)…  

By Steve Beebee 18th November 2022

The return to flight of a UK-based Avro Lancaster is the stuff that dreams are made of. FlyPast's Steve Beebee visited the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre where fantasy is rapidly becoming reality…

By Dave Allport 23rd September 2022

… be delivered by 2023. They will take over the maritime search and rescue (SAR) role from the current Caiman Marine …

By Thomas Haynes 16th November 2022

The head of Microsoft Flight Simulator has outlined his position on the future of free updates following the release of the highly anticipated 40th Anniversary Edition.