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Imagine a Sopwith camel biplane which first saw service in 1917 during the first world war and then using the same aircraft in combat missions right up until the last days of the Vietnam war in 1975. That’s a service life of 58 years which also spans a massive change …

It’s been the heavyweight workhorse of the United States airforce since 1970, moving everything from emergency food relief to main battle tanks and even other aircraft and pretty much everything else in between. It’s also the only ever plane to carry and launch a full-sized intercontinental ballistic missile in the …

It’s been six and a half years since Malaysian Airlines MH370 disappeared on route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, China with the presumed loss of all 239 onboard. And yet despite the most expensive air and sea search in aviation history and launching a whole raft of conspiracy theories, only …

The advantage that Stealth technology has bestowed on those countries which use it is hard to underestimate and it has changed the way warfare is conducted but it’s not just aircraft which use it, ships, vehicles even troops can use varying types of technology help hide from detection, this is …

To say that the F-35 project has come in for lot of bad press over the years is bit of an understatement with any number of critics and armchair pilots pitching in on every little piece of bad news that percolates through the internet. But with the aircraft now being …

They are seen by many as two of the finest fighter planes of world war 2 and yet both had rather inauspicious beginnings but through upgrades, both large and small they became formidable fighting machines that were feared and admired by both sides but how did the Focke-wolf FW-190 stack …

From Vietnam to the Falklands and from the cold war to the middle east, air to air refuelling or tanking is the unseen force enabler allowing those countries which have this capability, to project their airpower around the world and allowing their aircraft to stay in the air for as …

The SR-71 was a groundbreaking aircraft designed to take the place of the U2 spy plane but in the time between the U2 and before the SR-71, another aircraft was proposed and designed by the same man Clarence “Kelly” Johnson,  this would be so radical that it had the classification …

The first time we used hydrogen for civil aviation, it all ended rather badly, since then when you ever mention hydrogen-powered flight the first thing many people think of is the Hindenburg, but the times they are a-changing and with the pressure to find new non-fossil fuels for aircraft, will …

When you think of vertical take of and landing aircraft other than helicopters, probably the first ones that spring to mind is the now-retired Harrier Jump jet and the much more recent Lockheed F-35B and this might make you wonder why there haven’t been more of them around. Well, what’s …