At the airport in the city of Nanchang, its first flight was made by the serial Chinese UBS - combat training aircraft JL-10 (Jiaolian-10), which previously appeared under the designation L-15. It is worth noting that ...

The twin training aircraft T-33A, produced by LOKHID, is one of those long-livers on whom the career of several generations of pilots began. It is based on ...

The editors of our blog returned from a long binge holiday, not the last this year. And immediately plunged into one and their favorite affairs - aviation. 24 June in Voronezh started the first in ...

In the course of the recent international air show Le Bourget 2013, several news related to the future of the domestic aviation industry was announced. According to one of the statements of the Russian ...

Deck multifunctional helicopter EH-101 Merlin was designed to solve various transport problems, conduct reconnaissance and destruction of naval targets. European Helicopter Consortium ...

In the summer of 1991, the taxpayer saw the Il-102 experimental aircraft ("OES") for the first time. The attack aircraft was very reminiscent of the Il-40, launched into mass production in the mid-1950s, but so ...

Have you ever seen an asymmetrical car? Of course! For example, a mining truck with an offset cab. What about an irregular ship? Naturally, think of any aircraft carrier. And here...

The inconspicuous multipurpose F-35 fighter was defeated without firing a single shot at the enemy. The plane lost the main battle in his life long before his incarnation in the metal - the battle for ...

Airplane DH.100 Vampire became the first single-engine jet fighter of Great Britain. The first prototype of the future aircraft flew in Xfield 20 September 1943, just 16 months after ...

During the International Salon "Integrated Safety-2013", many of its visitors involuntarily stopped at the sight of a device of an unusual shape that looks like a fantastic aircraft ...

In recent years, China has constantly published information about its new developments in the field of fighter aircraft, but long-range bomber aircraft have not received the same attention. Only...

The Clip-Air aircraft project was created at the Federal Polytechnic School in Lausanne, starting with 2009. The model of the aircraft with a wingspan of 1,2 meters will be shown to the public for the first time as part of ...

Sweden was and remains one of the few countries in the world capable of creating first-class aviation equipment on its own. Combat aircraft of this Scandinavian country have always been different ...

In 1944 the head of the armament brigade of the Tupolev Design Bureau A.V. Nadashkevich and the leading engineer S.I. Saveliev suggested using G.Spagin-designed submachine guns when attacking infantry columns ...

Germany's attack on 22 June 1941 on the Soviet Union dramatically changed the fate of not only people, but also airplanes. Thus, the long-range bombers Er-2 without conducting military tests were sent to ...

The Horten Ho 229 was the first turbojet to be built according to the "Unsichtbar" aerodynamic design. It represented the result of more than a decade ...

Eurocopter, known in the aviation world, presented its new single-rotor Eurocopter EC130 Т2 helicopter in Russia and Ukraine as part of the demo tour. The novelty showed its public to ...

Sea cruiser MK-1 and other two-boat seaplanes in Soviet aviation during the 1920-30-s period. According to the well-known facts from the practice of world-wide marine aircraft building, two-boat apparatuses

Mi-10 (according to NATO codification Harke) is a military transport helicopter, a flying crane, which is a further development of the Mi-6. The machine was developed in 1961-1964 and adopted for service in 1963 year ....

A military plane is an expensive and complicated thing, to lose it in the first battle is not a good prospect, including for the army budget. But the airframe - engineless design, the maximum ...

The other day, "Izvestia" opened the veil of secrecy over one of the new projects designed to update the Air Force. The publication became aware of the end of the flight test ...

On the last day of spring, the US Department of Defense published a new update on the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II project. Implementation plans for this program have recently been revised and ...

The most famous American combat aircraft 1960-1980-ies, whose name has long been a household name for all US Air Force and Navy fighters. The world's first really ...

The experience of creating the highly successful Douglas A-20 feat of the Douglas Aircraft Company to create an improved aircraft that combines the characteristics of a day attack aircraft and ...