Aviation News
This year’s iteration of Exercise Blue Flag at Uvda Air Base, Israel will see a contingent from the Indian Air Force participating for the first time.
Photo: U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv
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A Halifax bomber LW682 was shot down on May 13, 1944 in Belgium, the wreckage was recovered in 1997 and the Royal Canadian Air Force has decided to use eight ingots of aluminum that had been cast from the melted down aircraft for “full wing” flying badges.
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Photo: RCAF
“It’s my intent . . . to use some of this metal from the 426 Halifax and put it in the new wings we’re creating for the Royal Canadian Air Force,” commander of the Royal Canadian Air Force, Lieutenant-General Mike Hood said.
The Bangladesh Air Force lost a Yak-130 advanced jet trainer on Jul. 10. The Inter Services Public Relation Directorate said both pilots ejected safely.
A German one-star general was given a briefing by U.S. officials in Bonn earlier this week regarding the Foreign Military Sales process for acquiring the F-35 stealth fighter, Reuters reported.
By U.S. Air Force photo by Jim Haseltine [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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Visitors to this year’s Slovak International Air Fest in August will get to see the Al Fursan aerobatic team from the United Arab Emirates Air Force.
By Aldo Bidini [GFDL 1.2 or GFDL 1.2], via Wikimedia Commons
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