A C-130 crew from VR-62 rescued a family of five stranded in a boat in the Pacific Ocean after spotting light reflecting off a can of Coca-Cola on May 25.
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U.K. test pilot completes first F-35B vertical landing
Royal Air Force Squadron Leader James Schofield completed the first F-35B vertical landing by a United Kingdom military test pilot May 28.
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Cargo shift to blame for 747 crash in Afghanistan
A joint U.S.-Afghan investigation into the crash of a 747 near Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan said cargo inside the aircraft shifted before the crash.
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The Last Zero Fighter: Firsthand Accounts from WWII Japanese Naval Pilots
Linguist and Pacific War historian, Dan King, will be speaking at the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library, Kansas next week on his book “The Last Zero Fighter: Firsthand Accounts from WWII Japanese Naval Pilots”
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Thales I-Master successfully tested on Diamond DA42
Thales’s I-Master radar system has successfully completed flight trials onboard a Diamond DA42MPP GUARDIAN aircraft.
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