Aviation News
Outgoing U.S. Air Force chief of staff, Gen. Mark Welsh, has change tune on the subject of restarting the Lockheed Martin F-22 production line.
By United States Air Force [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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The National Transportation Safety Board has published its investigation into the crash of a BAE Systems Hawk Mk 67 (former RoKAF T59) at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma on Mar. 11, 2015. The aircraft hit a stationary vehicle and killed a Marine inside it.
Photo by Randy Hoeft/Yuma Sun
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The Republic of Korea Air Force’s website has been offline since May 12 after administrators discovered that hackers had inserted malicious code into the server.
For the second consecutive year, U.S. Air Force B-52 bombers flew to Jordan and dropped live bombs during Exercise Eager Lion.
Continue reading “Two B-52s flew 35-hour mission to drop live bombs in Jordan”
A Iranian MiG-29UB twin-seat fighter crashed on May 24 in the western city of Hamedan. One pilot was killed and the other injured.
By Shahram Sharifi [GFDL 1.2 or GFDL 1.2], via Wikimedia Commons
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