Probably the most predictable news of the week - Boeing has given the go-ahead for the launch of its re-engined 737. If the rendered pics reveal anything it's that the new version of the twinjet has the same sculpted nacelles as the 787 and that Boeing is dropping the 700/800/900 designation in favour of the -7/8/9 seen on the 747 and 787.
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Looking very like the beginning of the legendary 'Nam film (only with a Boeing F-15 instead of Hueys) pictured is a Singaporean F-15SG on the runway at Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, with a huge brush fire raging in the background.
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...An Airbus A380 needed intercepting over Austrian airspace. We imagine it would look something like this. It was a training exercise held on 22 August and two Austrian Eurofighters conducted a QRA training interception of the new Airbus, fresh from its naming ceremony at Vienna airport, on its flight through Austrian airspace. The Eurofighters, scrambling from their base in Zeltweg/Styria, intercepted and flew in formation with the A380.
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OK, it might not unless you're living in Japan, but with the airline announcing routes and schedules for the new Boeing Dreamliner today, the twinjet's entry into service has moved a step closer. So, to honour that moment, here's a snap from our own Flightblogger of one of the first aircraft.
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A pair of Russian air force Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker fighters escort a simulated hijacked airliner during the second day of flight operations for exercise Vigilant Eagle on 9 August, over the Pacific Ocean. The Russian fighters followed and monitored the aircraft while it was in Russian airspace, handing it over to US Boeing F-15 Eagle fighters from Elmendorf AFB, Alaska, when it entered US airspace. Vigilant Eagle is an annual joint anti-terrorism exercise between the Russian air force, the Federal Aviation Administration and the North American Aerospace Defense Command that trains personnel to respond to an air terrorism threat that crosses international boundaries.
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Alenia Aeronautica/L-3 Communications C-27J Spartans, operated by the US Air National Guard, have commenced combat operations in Afghanistan. The Joint Cargo Aircraft provides intra-theatre airlift capability.
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This is the first ever air2air image of the CWH Lanc (only 2 airworthy) and CAF Helldiver (only one airworthy in the world today) so this image is truly special! What you don't see pictured is the 4 ship formation which included the CWH Fairey Firefly and the CWH B-25 as photo ship. Together these warbirds flew with massive horsepower and deafening noise over Toronto skies. Today I still proudly wear the battle scars left from the B-25's tail gunner position, hoping it will make the 2012 CWH 40th Anniversary Airshow even more successful!
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