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https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/2025-07-26/piper-signs-biggest-ever-order-taps-deltahawk-diesel

A BAF F-7BGI (Chengdu J-7 export variant) on a training mission crashed into a school campus in Bangladesh's capital just over four hours ago. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c75rprqwr67o :(

Hi, Agusta was an Italian helicopter manufacturer. It was based in Samarate, Northern Italy. The company was founded by Count Giovanni Agusta in 1923, who flew his first airplane in 1907. The MV Agusta motorcycle manufacturer began as an offshoot of the Agusta aviation company at the end of...

The worlds first test pilots school, our Empire Test Pilots School opened its doors for the first students in 1943, with the first fixed wing course and 2 decades later the first rotary wing course started. One of the graduates of the 1960s course was the late NASA Astronaut Al Worden who passed...

Today on October 16 2020, the Spanish division of Airbus presented its proposal for a new advanced trainer, the AFJT (Airbus Future Jet Trainer or Airbus Flexible Jet Trainer), to a small number of media. The AFJT is expected to replace the C-101 and F-5M in the Spanish Air Force. Links...

A bit of a Brain sneeze prompted by reading the Vanguard book on the Su25 in which the author noted thst the Soviet Union found thst the Mig 17 performed better in the ground attack role than the later Mig and Sukhoi designs that replaced them. The Canberra and Hunter replacement programmes for...

Congratulations to Leonardo as Us Navy selects the AW119 as the new Advance Helicopter Training System replacing the legacy Bell TH-57C Sea Ranger, https://www.navair.navy.mil/news/Navy-awards-contract-new-Advanced-Helicopter-Training-System/Mon-01132020-1723

A British start-up company, Aeralis, is trying to secure £1 mil via crowdfunding to design a concept fuselage demonstrator for a “modular” family of military jet trainers in time for September’s DSEI defence show. They are billing this as the first all-British military aircraft since the Hawk...

Turkish TAI has just showed concept drawing of HURJET advanced trainer/light attack plane. This aircraft being developed with American SNC; which is also eleminated from USAF T-X contest

Pilatus Flugzeugwerke AG, Stans, Switzerland Most Pilatus designations are relatively straightforward. Originally, numbered designs were simply prefixed 'P' for Pilatus. The PC-6 designation sprang from its design name, 'Pilatus Commercial Nr. 6'. Since then, all internal Pilatus aircraft...

Hi, here is the Max Holste H-20 P.1 twin boom shoulder high wing glider, I think one was built. http://www.retroplane.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=54470

http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/2011/09/photos-fighter-bomber-trainer.html http://defensetech.org/2011/09/19/dont-hold-your-breath-for-t-x/

Hi all, I have some projects by the good known latvian designer Karlis Irbitis. Let´s start in the chronolgical order... ...the I.1 to I.9 are build aircraft. The first projects was I.10 "Kaija II".

Hi all, I search for drawings and technical data for the swiss Pilatus projects P.1 training 1940 / P.5 utility 19?? / P.C.9 transport (not the trainer) 195? and the P.C.10 Twin Porter 19??. I know there was an article in FliegerRevue Extra No.1, but I have´nt this magacine. Thanks for your...

This seems to be published in one of the "Jane's Aviation Review". Any comments on the background of 'Vought's MiGs'?

1964, BA P.45 project. Supersonic Trainer, Strike and Fighter variants were contemplated, and with either 2 x RB.172 (early "Adour") engines or 1x RB.168 Spey already in production, plus various ex-TSR.2 avionic items, it was overall quite possible. With hindsight, however, ex BAe Warton...