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F-35 pilot talking about the 400K USD flight helmet: "It's cool but I don't really use it that often"

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F-35 pilot talking about the 400K USD flight helmet: “It’s cool but I don’t really use it that often”
"but I'm an old school pilot..." Few months ago we published the interesting interview Maj. John Wilson, an F-35 pilot with 61th Fighter Squadron, gave to Christian Sundsdal of the Danish website f...
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Incredible photos of some of the 150 U.S. WWII aircraft lying in the Airplane Graveyard in the Pacific

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Incredible photos of some of the 150 U.S. WWII aircraft lying in the Airplane Graveyard in the Pacific
There are over 150 Allied WWII aircraft lying 130 feet under the Pacific Ocean near the Marshall Islands. They call it the "Airplane Graveyard." It is located 130 feet under the Pacific Ocean, in t...
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Must Watch: Ukrainian Su-25 Frogfoot attack planes fly at insanely low altitude, buzz airport tower!

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Ukrainian Su-25 Frogfoot attack planes fly at insanely low altitude, buzz airport tower!
Ukrainian Air Force Su-25s as you have never seen them before! The following video is pretty impressive. It shows Ukrainian Air Force Su-25s flying at treetop altitude over Melitopol airbase, in so...
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U.S. A-10 Tank Busters deployed to Poland...again.

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U.S. A-10 Tank Busters deployed to Poland…again.
Some USAF A-10 "Warthogs" are stationed in Poland. 354th EFS (Expeditionary Fighter Squadron) has deployed again to Poland. This time the A-10s maintain their presence at the Polish 32nd Air Base l...
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Here is an extremely cool video of Russian Mig-31 Foxhound jets refueling from Il-78 Midas tankers

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Here is an extremely cool video of Russian Mig-31 Foxhound jets refueling from Il-78 Midas tankers
This is something you don't see every day. The MiG-31 Foxhound is a two-seater derivative of the MiG-25. It is a high-speed, high-altitude interceptor, in service since 1983 fielded to counter the ...
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U.S. F-22s, F-15s intercepted two pairs of Russian Tu-95 bombers off Alaska and California on July 4th

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U.S. F-22s, F-15s intercepted two pairs of Russian Tu-95 bombers off Alaska and California on July 4th
Russian bombers flew off Alaska and California during Independence Day and were intercepted by U.S. Air Force jets. Twice on Jul. 4, Russian Tu-95 Bear bombers on long-range patrol missions were in...
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Watch this video of a Libyan Mig-23 performing an insanely low flyby

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Watch this video of a Libyan Mig-23 performing an insanely low flyby
The lowest and fastest flyby by a Libyan Mig-23 Flogger We have already posted a cool shot showing FLAF (Free Libya Air Force) Mig-23 Flogger jets fly fast at ultra-low altitude on photographers at...
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Watch this: fantastic footage of F-16 firing AIM-9X and AIM-120 missiles, downing drone

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Watch this: fantastic footage of F-16 firing AIM-9X and AIM-120 missiles, downing drone
Royal Danish Air Force F-16s involved in a LIVEX (Live Firing Exercise). Last week some RDAF F-16 pilots were involved in a LIVEX over the North Sea. During the Live Firing Exercise, the Danish pil...
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Here's a cool video of the Russian warplanes met by the Norwegian F-16s over the Baltic Sea

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Here’s a cool video of the Russian warplanes met by the Norwegian F-16s over the Baltic Sea
Here's an interesting compilation of "zombies" intercepted by RNoAF (Royal Norwegian Air Force) F-16s in BAP (Baltic Air Patrol) duty. Since May 1, the RNoAF has taken over the leading role of the ...
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Video shows Su-30MK2 fighter jet fly over people rafting on the Nile River in Uganda

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Video shows Su-30MK2 fighter jet fly over people rafting on the Nile River in Uganda
A Sukhoi of the Uganda People's Defence Air Force makes a low pass over raft. Uganda People's Defence Air Force (UPDAF) operates a small fleet of Su-30MK2 aircraft. Six such multirole jets have bee...
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Two F-35 Lightning II took on a primary role as Close Air Support providers during GF 15-08. For the first time, F-35s belonging to the 31st Test and Evaluation Squadron played a major role during one of the 10 yearly iterations of Green Flag, an exercise conducted on the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California, where more than 5,000 U.S. [ 744 more words. ]

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F-35s played the US Army’s primary CAS providers during Green Flag. And were not shot down in the process
Two F-35 Lightning II took on a primary role as Close Air Support providers during GF 15-08. For the first time, F-35s belonging to the 31st Test and Evaluation Squadron played a major role during ...
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Crazy Cool 360° video shot from inside an F-5 fighter jet over the Alps

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Crazy Cool 360° video shot from inside an F-5 fighter jet over the Alps
360° movie from the cockpit of a Swiss Air Force F-5 jet with the Patrouille Suisse display team flying over the Swiss Alps. This video is stunning. It provides the immersive experience of a 360° v...
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We have flown in a Mi-17 Hip during this year's largest military helicopter exercise in Europe

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We have flown in a Mi-17 Hip during this year’s largest military helicopter exercise in Europe
Italian Blade 2015, the largest military rotary-wing exercise in Europe, underway at Viterbo, Italy. More than 30 helicopters and 1000 military personnel from seven different countries are taking p...
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Project Whale Tale: the story of how the U-2 became an embarked reconnaissance aircraft

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Project Whale Tale: the story of how the U-2 became an embarked reconnaissance aircraft.
Designated as a utility type to disguise its primary mission, the Lockheed U-2 was born as high altitude reconnaissance aircraft. Flying for about 8 hours, at 500 mph, at altitudes in excess of 70,...
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Remarkable image of the Thunderbirds taken when the team flew with the F-4 Phantom

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Mr. Huseyin Balta shared this remarkable photo of the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds from the era when they flew demonstrations in the F-4 Phantom II. The aircraft... are extremely low and inbound toward the crowd line, something we don't see too much in airshows anymore mostly as a result of the 1988 Rammstein Air Force Base airshow disaster, when an Italian flight demonstration team crashed into the crowd killing 67 spectators. Even after the U.S. flight demonstration teams adopted stricter safety flight demonstration regulations other countries continued dangerous practices. One led to the worst airshow disaster in history at Sknyliv in Lviv, Ukraine in 2002 with 77 fatalities.

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Amateur video of Space X launch and disintegration

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U.S. F-15s, Turkish and Pakistani F-16s among the highlights of Exercise Anatolian Eagle

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U.S. F-15s, Turkish and Pakistani F-16s among the highlights of Exercise Anatolian Eagle
Turkish, U.S. and NATO combat planes took part in the Anatolian Eagle exercise at Konya airbase. Constantly attracting a significant amount of foreign air arms, Anatolian Eagle, a medium-scale exer...
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Satellite caught a U.S. RQ-170 Sentinel stealth drone on the ground at Creech AFB for the first time

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Satellite caught a U.S. RQ-170 Sentinel stealth drone on the ground at Creech AFB
One of our readers has spotted something interesting in a satellite image Although Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel UAS (Unmanned Aerial Systems) have operated from Creech Air Force Base, Nevada, fo...
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Awesome GoPro video of former Frecce Tricolori's solo GB Molinaro flying aerobatics in a civil registered Siai 211 jet.

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Stunning photos of U.S. Marine Corps F/A-18s launching night air strikes on ISIS

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Stunning photos of U.S. Marine Corps F/A-18 Hornets launching night air strikes on ISIS
Some cool shots of U.S. Marine Corps Hornets launching for a mission in support of Operation Inherent Resolve missions. Taken on Jun. 10, the following photographs show U.S. Marine Corps F/A-18 Hor...
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