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Tu-204C airliner acting as a dedicated radar testbed at the CFTE. This features not only the J-20’s front section and radome but ...

Combat Aircraft meets the ‘Vigilantes’ of the 120th Airlift Wing, Montana Air National Guard, and looks at their new mission as ...

W E’VE BEEN A fi ghter unit our whole history. We’ve always fl own fi ghters’, says Col Patrick Hover, the operations group comm ...

because of the way [we now] do business in the AMC world’, Hover continues. ‘With an F-15 squadron or any other fi ghter unit yo ...

The move to the C-130 meant a lower requirement for maintainers, but an increased crewing requirement overall, resulting in many ...

The F-15 requires a far larger team of specialists and maintainers to manage its complex weapons systems. However, fewer aircrew ...

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The US Air Force’s  eet of ‘classic’ Hercules has been in line for an essential avionics upgrade for quite some time. Boeing wa ...

THE SAGA OF THE NEW COCKPIT With a competition under way to decide who would conduct full-rate production (FRP), in February 201 ...

T HE 24TH FULLY- MODERNIZED C-5M ‘Super Galaxy’ for Air Mobility Command (AMC) arrived at Stewart Air National Guard Base in New ...

Armored Vehicle Launched Bridge (AVLB), the Galaxy can also be confi gured to carry 270 passengers on palletized seating in the ...

for fl ight-testing following installation on C-5A serial 68-0214. Designed with an increased service life of 30,000 hours, the ...

Deliveries began on January 8, 1986 when the 443rd MAW at Altus AFB received its initial C-5B. The 60th MAW at Travis and 436th ...

system (IRS) with an off-the-shelf commercial GPS receiver. The AMP, which substantially improved the aircraft’s information and ...

for AMP were shifted to the RERP, which is on track to increase the mission-capable rate (MCR) of the Galaxy fl eet by at least ...

fl ew for the fi rst time on March 9, 2007. Developmental Testing (DT) with the three upgraded test aircraft was completed on Au ...

Now on display at the Air Mobility Command Museum at Dover AFB, Delaware, C-5A serial 69-0014, which was the last Galaxy assigne ...

Lavis await take- o clearance at the end of the Hatzerim runway, which they share with resident T-6 Efroni trainers. U NTIL A F ...

report and photos: Ofer Zidon http://www.combataircraft.net May 2015 79 78-91 Lavi C.indd 79 19/03/2015 10:36 ...

fl y-by-wire system and the ‘carefree handling’ system that provides the cadets with an in- fl ight safety envelope. The Lavi ha ...