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Author Archives: Stephen Trimble
A PSA for F-22 pilots
It’s been another wild week for the Lockheed Martin F-22 fleet. For the first time in five days, about 30 F-22s at Langley AFB, Virginia, were cleared to fly today. That comes one day after Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson lifted a grounding order on 40… Continue reading
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Another scary thought about what China's J-20 means
First, some good news: The Global Times quoted a senior Chinese air force officer last week saying the Chengdu J-20 is still a research project and it’s “difficult to say” when the theorized stealth interceptor would be ready for combat.Not-so-good new… Continue reading
J-20: China's ultimate aircraft carrier-killer?
It’s been nearly one month since first flight of the Chengdu J-20, but we still know so little about the aircraft. China’s air force — the PLAAF — has remained surprisingly mum on an aircraft they were so willing to flaunt on a Chengu runway for near… Continue reading
VIDEO: B-1 tips over F-16
This non-dated video appeared on LiveLeak yesterday. Continue reading
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VIDEO: More of PAK-FA's first air show surfaces
Russia’s fifth-generation fighter — the PAK-FA — staged an air show for Russian President Prime Minister Vladimir Putin back in May. Russian TV showed a few clips of what was then the 16th flight of the prototype called the T-50.A new video posted on… Continue reading
VIDEO: Oxcart/SR-71 – History as indictment of today's aerospace industry?
Could the modern US aerospace industry build an aircraft today that is as ambitious as the A-12 Oxcart/SR-71 was for its time? Could the industry build an aircraft today that could beat the performance of the CIA’s Oxcart and the Air Force’s Blackbird?… Continue reading
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Michael Yon captures RQ-170 at Kandahar
About six months ago, intrepid mil-blogger Michael Yon posted a comment on this blog below an item showing a new photo of an Northrop Grumman X-47B. Yon wrote:”I saw something like that land at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan. (Maybe was something else… Continue reading
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