During World War II, the Consolidated PBY-5 Catalina flying boat became famous for its long-endurance missions over the Pacific and Atlantic Ocean against enemy ships and submarines. Only very few aircraft ...
... more warmer climate. Their job stayed the same, but the air-air contacts changed from Russian to Chinese aircraft.
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... h the Ju-52 for their strong support in compiling this article, providing input to the report and granting permission for the photo flight!
Air-air photos have been taken around the airshow at Pils ...
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On the North side of the airfield
Despite the difficult photo opportunities, this visit to Komatsu was rather good. F-2s from Misawa were present at the airfield and were training air-air combat wit ...
... “Scorpion” Squadron. The deployment was complemented by one Gulfstream G550 „Eitam“ Airborne Early Warning (AEW) platform. Two Boeing 707 „Re’em“ transport and air-air refuelling jets supported the tr ...
... armed with live Magic short-range and MICA intermediate air-air missiles, which were on what was obviously a CAP (Combat Air Patrol) training mission.
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Note: text written using excerpts from „F-16 Dark Falcon“, a special limited edition of the Duke Hawkins series, published by HMH Publications.
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... comparing them to the Spitfires equipped with the elliptical wing.
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... more modern F-15J Eagle that can also carry more modern air-air missiles such as the AAM-4 or AAM-5. It is up to them to regularly go hunting for Russian and Chinese military jets that operate in the vicinity ...
... Marham‘s media office distributed some souvenir photos that have been taken during an air-air photoflight of the three-ship formation of the special coloured jets.
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... as a KC-767 air-air refueling tanker or a JMSDF P-3C maritime patrol aircraft were parked on the right side of the apron. On the left a handful of helicopters, trainers and fighter jets. The bigger transpor ...
... fighter used in the air-air as well as in the air-ground role, with a focus on anti-ship operations using the ASM-1 and ASM-2 air-sea missiles.
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6 Hikotai and 8 Hikotai Flying ...
... will be featured in the near future on another air-air photo feature on this site.
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Amazing Oshkosh
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... not only the historic formation consisting of the Dakota, Noratlas and Transall as well as the Eurofighter solo display were repeated, also the Luftwaffe role demonstration was shown including air-ai ...
Flying low over the jungle on tree top level the exploits of the Cessna O-1E Bird Dog in South East Asia are legendary. However, this venerable warbird is maybe one of the lesser known and unglamorous ...
... f water as additional ballast.
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Glider flying in Eichstätt, Bavaria / Altmühltal
Shooting some air-air photos of a ...
Doing air-air with classic aircraft from the 1930s is always a pleasure, even more so if it is an immaculately restored Bücker Bü 133 Jungmeister on a nice autumn Sunday morning. The Jungmeister D-EMKP “ ...
The Bücker Bü 131 Jungmann was the first design of Bücker Flugzeugbau with a first flight in April 1934 and quickly became the standard teaching plane of the Luftwaffe. Originally around 5000 copies were ...
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Its location make it the spear tip against intruders approaching from the East, though during nearly four days at the airport the QRA did not fly even once. But seeing F-15s equipped with the AAM-5 air-ai ...
