Aviation News
The Republic of Korea Navy has deployed four of its newly acquired AW159 naval helicopters aboard its frigates. Two of those took part in an exercise off the southern Geoje Island on Feb. 1.
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It has emerged that the Pakistan Air Force was activated on Feb. 1 to send a horse to Qatar. The animal was a gift from Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to the Emir of Qatar.
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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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Northrop Grumman employee Joseph Farina became the 29th Honorary Naval Aviator on Jan. 13 at Whidbey Island during a ceremony to mark his retirement.
Photo: U.S. Navy
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Northrop Grumman and partner BAE Systems announced on Feb. 1 that they are withdrawing from the U.S. Air Force’s T-X jet trainer competition.
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By Alan Wilson from Stilton, Peterborough, Cambs, UK (Northrop T-38C Talon ‘61-848 / EN’) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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