The UK’s latest jet fighter aircraft should finally arrive in the UK tomorrow as the first Lockheed Martin F35-B Lightning II’s fly into RAF Marham. The Joint Strike Fighters (JSF) will form the backbone of the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy attack aircraft replacing the role previously carried out by [read more]
A flight of three Rockwell B1-B Lancers, commonly known as “Bones” has touched down at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire. The aircraft flew from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas overnight as MYTEE 11 with an en-route fuel stop at Bangor Maine. Weather nearly hampered their arrival into RAF Fairford when at one [read more]
A temporary building forming part of Terminal 2 at Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) has been evacuated after a crack appeared in a wall and floor. Passengers took to social media site Twitter to describe hearing loud bangs and seeing cracks in the structure. One user, Andrea Atherton posted pictures of a [read more]
Yeovilton Air Day in July has already announced a spectacular line-up of display for 2018 but they keep coming and the latest comes from aircraft actually based at RNAS Yeovilton. Both the Commando Helicopter Force (CHF) and the Royal Navy Wildcats will be putting on role demos on the day which [read more]
The RAF100 Aircraft Tour gets underway this weekend and its first stop on the tour is Cardiff. For this weekend only you will a Wessex Helicopter, Eurofighter Typhoon, A Harrier and a Spitfire parked on the grass in front of Cardiff’s City Hall and you can visit them, for free. [read more]
Bristol Airport (BRS/EGGD) has today begun phase 2 of public consultation on the future of the airport. The “Towards 2050” plan includes design options for an inspirational gateway, improved boundary screening, and innovative uses for a proposed airside platform as well as setting out a charter for growth in five key [read more]
Boeing HorizonX Ventures has announced that it has invested in Reaction Engines Ltd, a UK based company that designs hypersonic engines. The Oxfordshire based company is known for its Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine (SABRE), a hybrid engine blending jet and rocket technology that is capable of Mach 5 in air-breathing mode and [read more]
The UK’s leading air traffic services provider, NATS has successfully introduced its Electronic Flight Progress Strips (EFPS) system to Farnborough Airport (FAB/EGLF). The NATS “Hub and Spoke” system incorporates Approach and Radar services along with Farnborough’s Lower Airspace Radar Service (LARS). Farnborough saw 27,000 movements last year and with 100,000 flights [read more]
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is to issue an airworthiness directive that will require airlines to carry out inspections on CFM56 engines on Boeing 737’s. The move comes as a result of an engine failure on a Southwest Airlines flight on Tuesday which killed one passenger although the FAA has been working [read more]
Former Red 10 and longest-serving Red Arrows member, Mike Ling MBE has returned to the team for 2018. Mike will take up the position of Red 3 for 2018 as Flight Lieutenant David Stark recovers from injuries sustained in a crash at RAF Valley last month. His return to the team comes [read more]
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