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A F/A-18C from VMFA-232 crashed near Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England on Oct. 21, 2016. BBC has seen the accident investigation report which says the Hornet’s Inertial Navigation System was not “100%” before it took off.
By English: Cpl Aubry L. Buzek [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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After a decade of planning, design, and build-up testing, the suit ensemble that will protect F-35 pilots from chemical/biological agents.
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U.S. Air Force photo by Brad White
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Lt. Gen. Jon M. Davis, the USMC’s deputy commandant for Aviation, disclosed that a AV-8B that crashed in September off Okinawa had went into a spin.
By U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Jason Robertson; The original uploader was Looper5920 at English Wikipedia, 2007-04-07 (original upload date) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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A member of the U.S. special forces was killed during a raid on Al Qaeda fighters in central Yemen. A V-22 dispatched to evacuate the wounded later had to make a hard landing and the wreckage was later deliberately destroyed.
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After flying the F-35 for eight years, Lockheed Martin test pilot David “Doc” Nelson became the first pilot to achieve 1,000 flight hours on the jet during a test sortie Jan. 6.
Photo: Tom Reynolds/Lockheed Martin
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