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I like Veoh for several reasons, but there's not much in the way of planes on there...
here's one with a bint in a plane...
Gemma Humphries at the Eastbourne Airshow 2007
Online Video: Gemma Humphries at the Eastbourne Airshow 2007 | Veoh Video Network
This is the uncut, unedited performance by the Blue Angels jet flying team@
Online Video: Blue Angels | Veoh Video Network
USAF Thunderbirds
Online Video: USAF Thunderbirds | Veoh Video Network
More F16s
Online Video: F-16 - Low Level Action. | Veoh Video Network
The fun part is that you can download the vids... hint search by run length and see what comes up .... you might be pleasantly surprised.
 
Flight says a Royal Air Force Tornado GR4 aircraft has dropped a non-explosive 14kg bomb in the UK during a training exercise from its base at RAF Lossiemouth in Scotland.

The bomb was dropped during a 90-minute journey across the country, but the RAF has yet to locate the bomb and warned the public to leave it where it is and to tell the police.

A news source suggested the overland journey included a low-level route through Northumberland and north-east Scotland.

BBC report - RAF spokesman Michael Mulford explains that an investigation is underway to determine the cause of the bomb release and suggests it could be wiring on the aircraft rather than human error."

No mention of a reward - prob turn up on EBAY!
 
first Eurofighter Typhoon in service at the 36th Wing of the Italian Air Force
(2007-10-05)
By: Finmeccanica Company

Four Eurofighters have taken off this morning from Grosseto and have landed at Gioia del Colle's Air Base. They are the first aircraft assigned to the XII Fighter Group of the 36th Air Wing of the big military base in the Puglia Region. With the entry into service at the 36th Air Wing, the conversion of ItAF's third Group on the new fighter has started, after the XX and IX, both belonging to Grosseto's 4th Wing.

The Typhoon is the main collaboration programme in the European history in the defence field. Result of the partnership between four countries: Italy, Germany, Spain and United Kingdom, the Eurofighter programme employs 120.000 persons all over Europe and represents the state-of-the-art of the aerospace technology, with major fall-backs on other industrial sectors with a positive economic impact of over EUR 40 billions registered in the consortium¿s member countries.

A total of 707 Eurofighter Typhoons has been ordered so far by six air forces, the four of the countries participating in the programme plus Austria and Saudi Arabia. This is a figure that marks the Typhoon aircraft as the most widespread fighter in the world, on top of being an aircraft able - thanks to its operational capabilities - of assuring a marked superiority against any present and future aerial threat.

As far as technical support and maintenance a team of 15 specialists of Alenia Aeronautica will support the ItAF technical team in the initial phase of transition to the new aircraft.

The XII Group will be fully operational by spring of 2009. This way the Italian Air Force will be able to count on two fully operating Air Defence' Groups, the XII in Gioia and the IX in Grosseto, for the surveillance of the national air boundary, replacing the F-16s currently in service.

The new aircraft's arrival has also been the occasion for the XII Group to celebrate the 90 years since its creation, which had taken place at Belluno's airport in 1917.
 
I have posted the next installment for the excellent story of 'Mitchells Do Fly in IMC" which I strongly suggest you watch as in IMHO it is one of the best warbird docs extant. It has everything, great characters battling against adversity, humour, cynicism, euphoria and despair etc. All the stuff of Readers' Digest dreams.

It also conveys the bravery and persistence of the flyers who brought in much needed machines in WW2.
 
From The Sunday Times
October 7, 2007
RAF cuts to axe quarter of key bombers
Michael Smith

The RAF is to lose a quarter of its frontline bomber force and two bases in new cuts to be pushed through by the Treasury, according to senior defence sources.

Two squadrons of Tornado GR4 ground attack aircraft will be scrapped, cutting the RAF's frontline squadrons from eight to six. One helicopter base and one training base will also be closed, with the land sold off to raise cash.

The move comes as the Royal Navy is braced for big cuts to its surface fleet with all four Type22 frigates and a destroyer set to be axed "as soon as possible". Other ships are under threat.

An internal e-mail leaked last month said that the "poor" deal for the Ministry of Defence (MoD) from the government's Comprehensive Spending Review meant the loss of five ships by April.
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Although the MoD has been promised a 1.5% increase in real terms in its budget over the next three years, the cost of future projects such as two new aircraft carriers is forcing it to make cuts elsewhere.

The sources said the MoD "equipment plan" for 2008 – which details all planned purchases – was rejected last month as too costly, largely as a result of urgently needed kit for troops in Iraq.

The cuts to the RAF come despite an insistence last month by Sir Glenn Torpy, chief of the air staff, that it was already "as lean as it can get". In 2004 the RAF was forced to cut a quarter of its frontline squadrons, one base and 7,500 personnel.

"The idea of getting rid of two of the very few squadrons capable of providing our troops on the ground with close air support, just as the Tornado is set to go to Afghanistan, is a sign of how stupid these people are," one senior source said.

The two Tornado GR4 squadrons to be scrapped are expected to be one each from the aircraft's bases at RAF Marham in Norfolk and RAF Lossiemouth, Morayshire; 13 Squadron, based at Marham, is at present training over Scotland for a deployment to Afghanistan next year.

There are three Tornado GR4 squadrons at each base. A squadron has 12 aircraft with 15 crews and four aircraft held in reserve. The other two frontline ground attack aircraft squadrons are equipped with the ageing Harrier aircraft.

The two bases to be scrapped have not yet been named but it is believed that one of them is Odiham, Hampshire, home of the RAF's Chinook fleet. It is seen as being the most vulnerable because its prime position within the extended London commuter belt would make its sale highly profitable.

The most likely training base closure would see the end of RAF Linton-on-Ouse in North Yorkshire, with all fast jet training amalgamated at RAF Valley in Anglesey. Linton-on-Ouse was a famous second world war bomber station once commanded by Arthur "Bomber" Harris, head of Bomber Command, and later Group Captain Leonard Cheshire VC, founder of the international charity bearing his name.

Moving its 78 Tucano training aircraft to Anglesey is likely to be unpopular because it will mean increased numbers of low-flying aircraft over Wales, which have always been a serious irritation for local farmers.

The cuts come despite a shortage of fast jet aircraft for operations and a need to limit the hours that each aircraft flies so that the Harrier fleet can stay operational until its replacement in 2017. A lack of long runways has seen the short take-off and landing Harrier providing close air support to British troops in Afghanistan.

John Nichol, the navigator of an RAF Tornado shot down over Iraq during the 1991 Gulf war, said the cuts left the RAF with "a disaster waiting to happen".

"When we were flying over Iraq during the Gulf war we thought we were being stretched to the absolute limit," he said. "The men and women flying now are working 100 times harder than we ever had to do. They are asked to do far more with far less.

"The military are their worst enemies. Their can-do attitude means they will always strive to do the job regardless of the resources the politicians give them. This isa disaster in the making, it really is."

The cuts are not the RAF's only problems. The government's deal to sell 75 Typhoon aircraft to Saudi Arabia and the decision to use the new Typhoon aircraft in Afghanistan mean that some Tornado F3 fighters will have to stay in service for another eight years.

The F3 was due to be scrapped next year and replaced by the Typhoon – formerly known as the Eurofighter. But the controversial al-Salam deal with Riyadh will mean that there are insufficient aircraft to cover Britain's air defences. Consequently, the F3 will stay in service till 2015.

An MoD spokesman said talk of cuts to the RAF and Royal Navy were part of an initial phase of discussions ahead of next year's planning round and no firm decisions had been taken.
 
Report: Israel 'blinded' Syrian radar

After Israeli missile strike on Syria confirmed by both sides, the question remains – how did Israel's non-stealth jets infiltrate Syrian airspace undetected? US aerospace experts tell Aviation Week magazine that Israel used new US-developed technology that lets users invade and manipulate enemy communication networks

Ynet
Published: 10.05.07, 01:15 / Israel News

After Syrian President Bashar Assad admitted that Israeli planes carried out a missile strike in Syria and after the media blackout on the incident was lifted in Israel, many unanswered questions still remain regarding how IAF jets managed to infiltrate Syrian security.


An article published this week on the aerospace magazine Aviation Week Space Technology's website offers the theory of experts in the field on how the Israeli F15 and F16 jets – which are not stealth fighters – managed to evade detection by Syrian air defense radar.
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US aerospace industry and former US Air Force officials told Aviation Week's Senior Military Editor David A. Fulghum that Israel must have used "a technology like the US-developed 'Suter' airborne network attack system".


The cutting-edge technology allows users to invade enemy communication networks, to "see what enemy sensors see and even take over as systems administrator so sensors can be manipulated into positions so that approaching aircraft can't be seen", experts said.


In effect, the technology infiltrates and tricks enemy sensors by "directing data streams into them that can include false targets and misleading messages algorithms that allow a number of activities including control," the article explains.


The US system was recently tested successfully in operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, officials told Aviation Week.



Iran worried?

According to the article, a Kuwaiti newspaper recently reported that "Russian experts are studying why the two state-of-the art Russian-built radar systems in Syria did not detect the Israeli jets entering Syrian territory. Iran reportedly has asked the same question,
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since it is buying the same systems and might have paid for the Syrian acquisitions."



The system is the new Tor-M1 launcher, and the Iranians bought 29 of them from Russia for $750 million to guard their nuclear sites. The Tor launchers were delivered in January, according to Agency France-Press and ITAR-TASS.


It is not confirmed that the Tor system was in fact the system guarding the Syrian site.
 
Air NZ plans biofuel test flight
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Air New Zealand is planning the world's first airline flight using biofuel, as the industry tries to comes to terms with the heavy emissions of greenhouse gases aircraft produce. The airline says the flight could take place by late 2008 or early 2009.

The plans are for a test flight without passengers using a blend of aviation biofuel and standard kerosene fuel in one engine only of a Boeing 747. The exact type of biofuel and the blend to be used will be announced at a later date. Biofuels are made from organic matter such as plants and sewage, as an alternative to fossil fuels.

Air New Zealand, majority owned by the national government, is among the more proactive companies in aviation searching for an environmentally friendly fuel and says the test flight will be an important step in its programme to find one.

Air New Zealand chief executive Rob Fyfe says recent advances in technology had brought the possibility closer than previously thought. Boeing and Virgin are also reported to be working on a "bio-jetfuel".

New Zealand's economy relies heavily on inbound tourism and agricultural exports, promoting a clean, green image to the rest of the world. For a country so far from major markets, especially in Europe, it is very sensitive to the growing debate over travel-related greenhouse emissions and "food miles".

Worldwide, aviation emissions account only for around 3 per cent of all human-related greenhouse emissions but have been growing rapidly with a boom in air travel over the last decade or so. A tonne of aviation fuel burnt produces up to three tonnes of carbon dioxide.
 
VIDEO: CAL 737-800 nearly overruns runway (UPDATED)
By Stephen Trimble
VIDEO: CAL 737-800 nearly overruns runway (UPDATED)
A China Airlines (CAL) Boeing 737-800 nearly ran off the end of a runway on takeoff in southern Japan on 5 October.

The aircraft only got airborne at the end of the runway and the main landing gear appears to have hit something on the ground as it took off, according to television footage taken at the scene.

Some news reports say a broken runway light was later found at the end of the runway.

A CAL spokesman in Taipei says the incident happened at around 14:00 on 5 October at Japan's Saga airport and it was the same aircraft that had been parked at Saga airport since 20 September undergoing repairs.

The aircraft, registered as B-16805, needed to be repaired because it had a 77cm crack in the rear fuselage.
 
Princess Anne's quick getaway as helicopter catches fire
Last updated at 00:41am on 9th October 2007

Princess Anne was forced to abandon a helicopter moments before take-off yesterday when its starter engine burst into flames.

Crowds of schoolchildren who had gathered to wave off the Princess Royal looked on in horror as she leapt out of the aircraft as it rapidly filled with smoke.

"For one awful moment people thought the Princess may have been injured but apparently she was fine," said one boy who witnessed the drama in the grounds of Denbigh High School, North Wales, at 2.30pm.
Princess Anne's quick getaway as helicopter catches fire | the Daily Mail
An electrical fault was thought to be the cause of the fire in the Sikorsky S76 C+, part of the Royal Flight. The Princess, 57, accompanied by two aides, was sitting in the back of the helicopter when the fire broke out.
 
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