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Do You Know What a Laser-guided Rocket is? The Air Force Does Now

December 22, 2016 apkws laser guided rocket system f16

The Air Force recently added BAE Systems’ Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWSTM) laser-guided rockets to the F-16 and A-10 aircraft. The BAE Systems APKWSTM transforms a standard unguided 2.75-inch (70 millimeter) View More ›

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Watch: Boeing’s T-X Trainer Jet Flies for the First Time

December 22, 2016 boeing-t-x-trainer-jet

WASHINGTON — Boeing’s T-X trainer candidate took to the skies for the first time on Tuesday. The T-X trainer is Boeing’s entry into the process of selecting a replacement for View More ›

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Trump and Boeing CEO Meet – Promises a Less Expensive Air Force One

December 21, 2016

If you recall it was just a couple of weeks ago that President-elect Trump tweeted to ‘cancel’ the new Air Force One purchase from Boeing because it was too expensive. View More ›

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Marine Corps in Japan Cleared to Resume Flying MV-22 Ospreys

December 21, 2016 U.S._Marine_Corps_MV-22B_Osprey

After six days of suspended flights due to a crash the Marine Corps are back in business flying the MV-22 Ospreys. Monday Marine Corps commanders issued the order to resume View More ›

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Trump Tweet Rebuttal: Air Force General Defends F-35 Program

December 21, 2016 Lt. Gen Christopher C Bogdan

Monday Air Force Lieutenant General Chris Bogdan countered President-elect Trump’s tweet from a week ago and defended the F-35 program as being critical to the security of the United States and View More ›

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Cirrus Aircraft Delivers First Single Engine ‘Personal’ Jet

December 20, 2016 cirrus vision jet

Cirrus Aircraft, based in Duluth, MN announced the delivery of the first Vision Jet to their customer Joe Whisenhunt, a commercial real-estate developer from Arkansas. Whisenhunt is a loyal Cirrus customer owning 10 View More ›

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Russian Military Il-18 Turboprop Crashes in Arctic

December 20, 2016 russian plane crash

A Russian military flight carrying 39 people crashed Monday on approach to landing at an Arctic airport facility. Reports are that there were no deaths but all passengers aboard the View More ›

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Did You Know the Marines are Getting F/A-18’s from the Boneyard?

December 19, 2016 Boeing-USMc-F-18C+

How many of you know that the United States Marine Corps does not have enough combat ready F/A-18’s for their pilots to fly? Surprisingly, the statement is true and to View More ›

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NASA Launches Weather Satellites into Earth Orbit from an Aircraft!

December 16, 2016 orbital-atk-stargazer-pegasus-rocket-satellite-launch

An Orbital ATK L-1011 Stargazer aircraft took off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida carrying the Pegasus XL rocket with eight mini weather satellites inside. Flying at 39,000 View More ›

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Thunderbird F-16 Crash Report Released: Faulty Throttle

December 16, 2016 ThunderbirdCrash2-colorado-springs

Back on June 2nd an Air Force Thunderbird F-16 crashed after performing a flyover at the Air Force Academy graduation ceremony. Today the Air Force released the findings of the View More ›

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