Jet News
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London -
A passenger jet approaching Heathrow was involved in a 'near-miss' with a drone. The incident raises questions again about the control and regulation of unmanned aircraft.
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By AFP
Moscow -
The Tupolev aircraft maker's Tu-154, the type of plane that crashed Sunday in the Black Sea with 92 people on board, is an ageing Russian workhorse whose record is plagued with accidents.
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By AFP
Ankara -
A Turkish F-16 fighter jet on Friday shot down a Sikorsky helicopter hijacked by coup plotters seeking to oust the government, a presidential source said.
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By AFP
Toukyo -
Japan's first stealth fighter jet successfully took to the skies on Friday as the country joins a select group of world military powers wielding the radar-dodging technology.
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Moscow -
Russia ordered Kogalymavia airline to stop flying Airbus 321 jetliners like the type that crashed Sunday over Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, killing all 224 aboard, the semi-official Interfax news agency is reporting.
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Lemoore -
A U.S. Navy pilot walked away Monday from the fiery crash of a fighter jet in central California, military officials reported.
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Airbus might have plans on developing a supersonic jet that could make it from London to New York in just one hour. Regular commercial flights take around seven to eight hours to complete the journey.
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By AFP
Birut -
Technical failure caused a Jordanian pilot captured by Islamic State group jihadists in Syria to eject after flying at low altitude, activists and a monitoring group told AFP on Friday.Maaz al-Kassasbeh "was flying at a high altitude to start with.
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By AFP
Washington -
The United States dismissed Wednesday a claim by the Islamic State jihadist group that it had shot down a Jordanian F-16 fighter flying with US-led coalition forces, which crashed in eastern Syria.
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Washington, D. C. -
US military officials were pleased Monday to announce that the most expensive weapon ever built, the new F-35 war plane, has been cleared to fly again, although with limitations.
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By AFP
Kiev -
Kiev on Thursday accused a Russian air force jet of shooting down a Ukrainian warplane over its territory Wednesday, ratcheting up tensions along the volatile border between the two ex-Soviet states.
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Fortunately no one was hurt when a Mirage 2000 jet belonging to the French Air Force crashed in a field in northeastern France Monday. The pilot apparently managed to parachute to safety.
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Russia's Transaero Airlines is set to launch its new Airbus A380 in 2015. The so-called super jet' will have the largest passenger capacity in the world.
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Tehran -
New photos of Iran's recently unveiled stealth fighter are going viral, with many claiming the photos appear to have been Photoshopped.
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A driver got quite a fright in Russia when a heavy armored tank suddenly appeared out of nowhere on a busy road and drove across in front of his car in Nizhniy Tagil in the Urals. He caught it on his on-board video camera.
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Although current frequent travelers won't enjoy the luxury of in-plane internet access, Boeing is officially working on it. There's no mention on when this feature will be implemented on commercial air planes, but it is nice to know it will one day.
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The popular rapper's diagnosis was unclear and he was released at 6 p.m. on Friday after doctors confirmed he was felling better.
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A Boeing 727 crash in the Sonoran Desert in Mexico was staged in order to study the impact of plane crashes on the human body, and to test the impact on an aircraft's frame.
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Newark -
Last night a jet had to make an emergency landing on a runway at New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport after the plane's front landing gear experienced a malfunction.
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New York -
Video footage has been released of a large Airbus clipping a smaller plane, and spinning it, on the runway at JFK Airport.
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Gairloch -
Two RAF crew members were rescued after they ejected from a burning Tornado GR4 jet which then crashed into the sea off the coast of Scotland.
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Cold Lake -
A Canadian Forces pilot ejected from his fighter jet just before it crashed in Alberta, a few minutes before midnight on November 17.
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Columbus -
Lisette Lee, an actress and supposed Samsung heiress, was arrested in Columbus Ohio after authorities received an anonymous tip she was allegedly carrying over 500 lbs. of marijuana in 13 suitcases aboard a private plane.
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Ever wished you could beam yourself out of rush hour traffic? Well this comes close, the first commercial jet-packs are now in the market.
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A passenger flying into LaGuardia Airport Sunday night has been detained by the FBI after boarding with an explosive device.
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A report says the former South African Air Force (SAAF) pilot who was killed at yesterday’s Overberg Fly-In near Cape Town was a very experienced pilot with close to 16,000 flying hours.
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Engineers are still working to establish what it was that caused the cabin of a British Airways Boeing 747-400 jet to fill with smoke just as it was preparing to take off from Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport in Arizona.
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After a series of postponement of its launching due to production delays, the much awaited Boeing 787 Dreamliner will make its maiden flight by the end of the month.
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A jet belonging to United States air force has crash landed in the desert. The F-22 fighter crashed in California, the pentagon announced.
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A British Airways jet from Amsterdam has been involved in an emergency incident at London City Airport, hours after a fatal incident in New York.
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An F-18 Hornet similar to this one crashed into apartment buildings in Virginia Beach, Friday. The Waterboy/flickr
F-16 fighter jet Master Sgt. Andy Dunaway
The De Havilland Vampire was the SAAF's first jet fighter.
Seams can be clearly seen on the U.S. Stealth Fighter. scottjlowe
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AIRLINE: An Airbus 320 jetliner taxis at Juanda International Airport in Surabaya, Indonesia, in 2010. Kentaro Iemoto/Wikimedia Commons
Photo of the Iranian stealth fighter flying over Mount Damavand are remarkably similar to a stock photo of the mountain. Khouz News
IDF's F-15 Takeoff in Hatzerim Base IDF
The lighting on the plane in both pictures appear to be identical. Knouz News
No seams or rivets can be seen on the stealth fighter Iran claims to manufactured. Khouz News
Colonel Rama Iyer puts his beloved Vampire jet through its paces.
The SAAF Museum's Canadair-built F86F Sabre jet fighter.
Similarities to a stock photo and the photo released by the Iranian government are illustrated. Khouz News
The Grumman F-11 carrier fighter.
Octopussy (1983) is the thirteenth entry in the Eon Productions James Bond film series, and the sixth to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond.
WRECKAGE: A salvage ship in the Java Sea carries the tail section of AirAsia Flight 8501 that crashed Dec. 28 on a flight from Indonesia to Singapore. U.S. Navy/Wikimedia Commons
Porter Airlines announced a conditional order on April 10, 2013, for up to 30 Bombardier CS100 aircraft to operate from Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport, making it possible to serve destinations such as Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Los Angeles, Florida and the Caribbean. Porter Airlines Inc.
An air-to-air front view of a Spanish AV-8S Matador aircraft in flight over the Spanish aircraft carrier DEDALO (R01). Lieutenant Commander John Leenhouts, US Navy
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