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Personnel and equipment from Floridas Hurlburt Field and Duke Field made a bit of military history Thursday during an exercise on a Michigan highway.

By Garrett Reim2021-08-03T01:15:00+01:00 Bell has unveiled three “High-Speed Vertical Take-Off and Landing” aircraft design concepts. The renderings, as well as new performance details, come several months after FlightGlobal reported that the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) contracted Bell to research a similar idea and follows a flurry of related patent filings from the manufacturer. Source: Bell Bell’s High-Speed Vertical Take-Off and Landing concept aircraft could be manned or ...

World War II aviation history retold during airshows EAA AirVenture 2021 will feature several airshows that highlight World War II aviation history to celebrate 75 years since the end of the war. The demonstrations will take place July 30 and 31 and feature planes used by the U.S. Army Air Force and Navy, as well as several international aircraft. Festival goers can expect to see the P-40 Tomahawk, Supermarine Spitfire, P-38 Lightning, F6F Hellcat, C-47 Skytrain, Hawker Hurricane, P-51 Mus...

World War II aviation history retold during airshows EAA AirVenture 2021 will feature several airshows that highlight World War II aviation history to celebrate 75 years since the end of the war. The demonstrations will take place July 30 and 31 and feature planes used by the U.S. Army Air Force and Navy, as well as several international aircraft. Festival goers can expect to see the P-40 Tomahawk, Supermarine Spitfire, P-38 Lightning, F6F Hellcat, C-47 Skytrain, Hawker Hurricane, P-51 Mus...

Russia is testing “kamikaze drones,” or unmanned aircraft that are essentially flying artillery shells. Factory testing of the KYB-BLA and Lancet weapons have been completed, Alexander Zakharov, chief designer at ZALA Aero, told Russian news agency TASS during a Russian defense trade show in 2018. ZALA Aero is part of famed small arms maker Kalashnikov, which is now delving into drones. The U.S. military doesn’t like the term “kamikaze drone,” preferring to call these weapons “loite...

Whether foreign mothers portray them as monsters to scare their children or as saviors who dispatch the monsters, the Air Commandos' myth is created in the shadows.

Update: SOFIC 2021: SOCOM plans four demo flights for each Armed Overwatch candidate 20 May 2021 by Pat Host US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) will have candidate platforms for its Armed Overwatch manned aircraft competition, where each fly four demonstration flights between 14 June and 23 July at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. During the annual Special Operations Forces Industry Conference (SOFIC) on 17 May, James Smith, SOCOM acquisition executive, said that the command will evaluate if...

SOFIC 2021: SOCOM plans four demo flights for each Armed Overwatch candidate 19 May 2021 by Pat Host US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) will have candidate platforms for its Armed Overwatch manned aircraft competition, where each fly four demonstration flights between 14 June and 23 July at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. During the annual Special Operations Forces Industry Conference (SOFIC) on 17 May, James Smith, SOCOM acquisition executive, said that the command will evaluate if the con...

USAF Special Ops Aircraft Coming to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2021 USAF Special Ops Aircraft Coming to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2021 An AC- 130U gunship from the 4th Special Operations Squadron jettisons flares over an area near here, Aug. 24. The flares are a counter measure for heat seeking missiles that may be aimed at the planes real-world missions. PRESS RELEASE – The U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) will bring a wide spectrum of its aircraft designed for unique missions as p...

By Garrett Reim2021-05-06T01:17:00+01:00 The US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has contracted Bell to research a high-speed vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft. The laboratory granted Bell a $950,000 contract to conduct applied research into the concept, it disclosed in an online notice posted on 28 April. Source: Bell and US Patent & Trademark Office Diagram from Bell’s ‘Tiltrotor aircraft having rotary and nonrotary flight modes’ patent application published in 2017 Bel...