UK military pilots have been involved in the second round of vertical night landings at sea of the new F-35B Lightning II fighter aircraft. The pilots, along with UK ground crew, are testing 3 Lightning II jets at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, working alongside their counterparts from the US Marine Corps. The latest … Dowiedz się więcej
The RAF can confirm that Flight Lieutenant William Wales (The Duke of Cambridge) has now completed his final search and rescue duties with the RAF Search and Rescue Force. He and his crew had an uneventful 24 hour shift which ended at 0930 am on Tuesday, 10thSeptember 2013. During the preceding 24 hours, they conducted … Dowiedz się więcej
The Air Force’s KC-46 air refueling tanker project is „on cost and on schedule,” Acting Air Force Secretary Eric Fanning said here Sept. 9. In an interview with American Forces Press Service, Fanning said the program „is in a real healthy place.” The Air Force will buy 179 of the aircraft to replace the venerable … Dowiedz się więcej
Hundreds of local residents, veterans, civic dignitaries, air cadets, scouts and personnel from RAF Northolt gathered at the Polish War Memorial in South Ruislip on Saturday 7 September to remember the Polish airmen who gave their lives whilst serving with the RAF in WW2. The ceremony, which commenced at midday with a flypast by a … Dowiedz się więcej
The Air Force will host the famed Doolittle Tokyo Raiders’ final toast to their fallen comrades during an invitation-only ceremony on Nov. 9 at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. Eighty men achieved the unimaginable April 18, 1942, when they took off from an aircraft carrier on a top secret mission to bomb … Dowiedz się więcej
Everyone who gathered in the office of the Commander of the IAF remembers that moment well: dressed in uniform, standing as one, gazing towards the gates of the death camp Auschwitz, Birkenau in Poland, their hearts filled with immense pride. They eagerly await the roar of the engines of the F-15 planes that will cut … Dowiedz się więcej