Combat aircraft
meant that some facilities needed to be constructed on the ice cap with the help of US Navy Air Development Squadron Six (VX-6)’ ...
night before we can go on the skiway, so it turns into a day/night shift. My day may start at 23.00hrs and end at 05.00hrs. Mean ...
‘Landing distances are dependent on the weight of the aircraft. The aircraft has no brakes, and instead uses the friction of the ...
Navigating at the poles When flying into airports, pilots will typically have navigation aids, but in austere conditions — espec ...
Above right: Maj Amanda Coonradt uses the sextant to mitigate the risk of the LC-130’s unreliable compass around the North and S ...
be very challenging, but on days when the sky is white, the ground is white and the horizon is white, the pilot can lose the sur ...
Above left to right: An LC‑130H crew chief monitors engine start‑up at Kangerlussuaq. Maj Emery Jankord, the commander for the d ...
an electronic propeller control system (EPCS) and an in- ight propeller balancing system (IPBS). The unit has had an NP2000 eig ...
aircraft. The aircraft has no brakes, and instead uses the friction of the snow and reverse thrust of the propellers, bringing i ...
set. Within hours, the convoy of additional bridging equipment arrived on the banks of the Euphrates, south of the Syrian city o ...
jihadis inside the caliphate’s self-declared capital, Raqqa. At the same time, Syrian government troops, backed by Russian air p ...
gain some insights into their activity by monitoring local news agencies and through commercial satellite imagery. One remarkabl ...
UN World Food Programme. The Syrian Army garrison was kept ghting by a shuttle, via the government-held air eld at Qamishli A ...
helicopters ew daily missions against the IS positions, allowing the Syrian ground troops to edge forward to within a few mile ...
militia ghters of the SDF also had their eyes on the oil elds, and just as the IS defenses were collapsing on the western ban ...
The Russian Aerospace Forces are preparing to receive their rst examples of the new Mi-28UB — a combat training helicopter bas ...
I N OCTOBER THE Russian Ministry of Defense announced that its first Mi-28UBs were ready for delivery at the Rostvertol aviation ...
contract was finalized for the sale of 42 Mi-28NEs to Algeria in 2013. It was not the only foreign customer of the Mi-28UB — Ira ...
provides for a larger window in the door, and makes it easier to open the door or its transparency in emergency situations. Desp ...
HEROES IN TRAINING In this second part of our coverage of US Navy pilot training, Combat Aircraft reports from Training Air Wing ...
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