Taken from the US Air Force site is this cracking picture of too many aircraft all trying to occupy the same space. It was shot at the 2012 Kaneohe Bay Air Show on Marine Corps Air Station, Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii last month and shows a US Air Force Lockheed Martin C-130, a pair of Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallions, a Bell AH-1 Cobra and a Bell UH-1. Phew, did I forget anything?
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Although it has a shape that only its mother - or a geometrician - could love, the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit Bomber is certainly striking, particularly in this US Air Force photo where it's pictured taking on fuel from a Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker.
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Picture credit: Cobham Aviation Services
This A330 airtanker arrived into Bournemouth on 26 August. For more read this picture story below.
An Airbus Military A330 MRTT Future Strategic Transport Aircraft (FSTA) for the UK's Royal Air Force has successfully completed its first contacts with a Tornado fighter.
This contact was a dry contact, by day and night, recently during a programme to qualify the Tornado to refuel from the FSTA in operational service.
The operation was conducted from RAF Boscombe Down with the support of Qinetiq, the
Wet contacts, where fuel is passed from the tanker to the receiving aircraft will begin soon.
Photo: Airbus MilitaryThe C295 MPA/ASW includes two under-wing pylons for the installation of torpedoes and
other external loads. It also incorporates a Store Management System (SMS), integrated with the Airbus Military Fully Integrated Tactical System (FITS), to control the deployment of sonobuoys for submarine detection and torpedoes.
The C295 MPA has a flight endurance of over 11 hours, and it is used for a wide variety of
missions: Search and Rescue (SAR), control of the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), law
enforcement, marine pollution detection, as well as defence missions. The C295 platform, a multi-mission short / medium range tactical transport aircraft, offers high manoeuvrability and excellent qualities for low-altitude flying. In addition, it has been widely tested in all kinds of aerial deployments: launch of chains of SAR rafts, emergency equipment and parachutists.
To date, a total of 82 C295s have been sold to 12 operators, and nine countries have
contracted 47 CN235/C295s MPA, which demonstrates the capabilities and effectiveness of Airbus Military platforms for maritime patrol missions. Airbus Military has sold more than 800 C295/CN235/C212s to more than 120 costumers.
The Chilean navy has received its first of three Airbus Military C-295 maritime patrol aircraft, launching a "renovation" of its fixed-wing reconnaissance fleet.
Delivered on 30 April, the new aircraft adds to a Chilean naval aviation force already consisting of Lockheed P-3ACHs, Piaggio P-111s and Airbus Military C-212s. Continue reading...
(Photos: Airbus Military)
The Royal Australian Air Force's first Airbus A330-based multirole tanker/transport has for the first time passed fuel to another large aircraft, moving the type closer to its delayed service entry late this year.
One of five RAAF-designated KC-30As on order, the modified airliner
transferred almost 30t of fuel from its centreline boom to a French air
force Boeing E-3F airborne warning and control system aircraft during two test flights conducted from Airbus Military's Getafe site near Madrid. Continue reading...
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