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A Russian MiG-29 will dogfight a Su-30SM during the aerial display segment of the Aviamix airshow on Aug. 6.
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By Dmitry Terekhov from Odintsovo, Russian Federation (RF-93824 SU-30SM) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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A U.S. Navy pilot, flying a F/A-18C from VMFA-232, was forced to eject near Naval Air Station Fallon, Nevada, at approximately 10:50 a.m. on Aug. 2.
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By John Murphy (VMFA-232) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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After a long and difficult endeavor, the land-based variant of the F-35 has been declared combat ready by the U.S. Air Force’s Air Combat Command (ACC) on Aug. 2.
By U.S. Air Force photo by Jim Haseltine [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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Alaska Airlines Flight 80 was flying from Anchorage to Seattle on Aug. 1 when the airliner chance upon the U.S. Navy Blue Angels carrying out a mid-air refueling near Yakutat.
Maj. Gen. John Rossi was suppose to take command of the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command at Redstone Arsenal. However, he passed away on Jul. 31 on the installation.
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