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• One of the more strange stories was from someone who claimed he had been in contact with aliens since he was only 7. He said he had been visited twice and had witnessed a UFO being shot down. Then he tried to arrange a meeting between one of the aliens called Algar and the British Government. But later told them that Algar had been killed by the rest of the aliens before the meeting could take place.
  
• One spotting in Hastings, East Sussex in 1999 told of  "A UFO that looked like a helicopter? It hovered and then shot off into the distance. It had red flashing lights!"( i wonder what that could be!?.
To find out some interesting stories for yourself, look at the MOD website

This week starts with highlights from the Red Bull Air Race, where Paul Bonhamme took the second race in San Diego. Follow this year's events on AirSpace as we bring you the latest standings and video and picture highlights:

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To celebrate 100 years of publishing, Flight has been compiling a aviation survey to establish the best moment,person, engine, civil aircraft and military aircraft of the past 100 years.

This list has not been without controversy, springing a fierce debate on whether the concorde can be bettered, whether landing on the moon beats the first unmanned flight, and so on and so forth...

Continue reading "Williams Formula one boss Frank Williams picks his favourite aviation events" »

The first video this week showcases the new Embraer Phenom 300, which performed its first flight from the Gavião Peixoto test runway:

Continue reading "Flightglobal's video review of the week: First flights,lost landing gears and a flying airjelly" »

I thought I'd seen it all but I clearly haven't. I was taking an interest in Paul Gladman's Image of the Day Blog when I spotted a very unusual aircraft type - the Caspian Sea Monster.

Continue reading "VIDEO: the Caspian Sea Monster in motion" »

If you think American Airlines customer services honcho Don Langford’s much-publicised and rather uncharitable comment about London Heathrow’s being the “worst airport in Europe” sounds familiar, then you’re right.

BBC radio broadcast his opinion in this programme today. But he pretty much said the same thing to Parliament’s transport select committee in November last year, when he complained about the shabby state of Terminal 3 and the delays caused by security queues, and accused operator BAA of failing to pay attention to the impression being given to passengers.

“I have to say Heathrow is so bad we have shifted some capacity to [London] Stansted,” he said.

“We have seen…that Heathrow is becoming a less popular transit hub. We are finding that customers are making their transfers at other airports within Europe, and we believe this to be a trend which is continuing.”

Twenty years ago, long before ‘biofuel’ became a marketing hook, the Soviet Union quietly flew for the first time a modified version of the Tupolev Tu-154B to demonstrate how aircraft could be powered with an alternative energy source.

Designated the Tu-155 the aircraft took to the air on 15 April 1988, its thrust partly generated using liquid hydrogen.

Continue reading "Tupolev’s cryogenic Tu-155- 20 years on!" »

The Roman Catholic priest who took flight by tying himself to a chair with hundreds of helium balloons has gone missing off the coast of Brazil.

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This week has seen some astonishing videos from Flightglobal.com. Firstly, came the Georgian UAV that was spectacularly caught on camera being decimated by a MiG-29:

Next comes the harrowing images from Da Nang in 1975, where there scenes of rampant panic to board the World Airways 727 as it came in on a mercy mission:

Finally we have an interview with the inventor of the F-35B's innovative shaft-driven lift fan, Paul Bevilaqua:

A regular user on Flight's AirSpace, Goose, has posted this harrowing video showing how there was "rampant panic" to board the last flight out of Da Nang in 1975:

Continue reading "In the archives: World Airways 727 in mercy mission in Da Nang" »