Aviation News
A-10C #81-095 is back flying again after restoration by the 75th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron. The attack jet was forced to make a belling landing on Apr. 7 at Moody Air Force Base last year after a failure of its 30mm cannon disabled the jet’s landing gear, and blew off the canopy.
U.S. Air Force photo by Andrea Jenkins
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The crew of a C-17 from the 3rd Airlift Squadron was on its fourth mission to ferry passengers out from Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan when they found out that the normal airfield lighting was out.
English: Sgt. Matt Lyman, USMC, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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The Russian military has determined that the Su-35 pilot who shot down a Su-30SM during a mock dogfight on Sept. 22 last year will be charge with criminal conduct.
Mil.ru, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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A JASDF F-2 that scrambled from Tsuiki Airbase on Oct. 10 lost its canopy inflight while the jet was over the vicinity of Asakura city. Investigations into the incident had found that the pilot had failed to lock the canopy before take-off.
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