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Remembering the First Airbus A-380 Arrival at KJFK

Airbus’s A-380 super-sized airliner was launched at the end of the year 2000. A little more than four years later, the first flight of a prototype occurred, on April 27, 2005. European and U.S. type certification occurred some twenty...

air force / europe / military

Tankerflight with German Airbus A.310MRTT at Joint Warrior 2015

The German Air Force bought four Airbus A.310-304 aircraft between 1996 and 1999 for the refueling of their fighters (Tornado and Eurofighter). They were initially converted into Multi-Role-Transport (MRT) aircraft and later received additional removable equipment to refuel aircraft at Dresden,...

contrails

CROP-DUSTING IN IDAHO

By John Bigelow By early summer, 1959, my friend, Murray, an ex-F-86 fighter jock fresh from the Royal Canadian Air Force, and I, a furloughed Canadian C-46 copilot, were newly graduated crop-dusters. Murray had landed a job flying Stearmans...

Airshow / assignments / europe

Bahrain International Air Show

With an ever smaller world the time that you could use a long winter to sort out your photos of the previous year is well behind us. Nowadays there is an air show in reach every month of the...

legends / tribute

Roger Peterson’s Last Flight… 55 Years Ago

Every pilot has a last flight. Some will know this is THE last flight before takeoff and others simply will not. Roger Peterson’s last flight was on February 3, 1959 and when he took off, he had no idea...

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