Blue Angels Select First Woman to Fly Team’s Jet Demo Starting Next Year
For the First Time in Over 7 Decades, the U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels Have Selected a Woman to Fly One of the Six Jets in the Team’s World-Famous Aerial Demonstrations.…
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Mike Killian
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Killian is our Assistant Editor & a full time aerospace photojournalist. He covers both spaceflight and military / civilian aviation & produces stories, original content & reporting for various media & publishers. Over the years he’s been onboard NASA's space shuttles, flown jet shoots into solar eclipses, launched off aircraft carriers, has worked with the Blue Angels & most of the air show industry, & has flown photo shoots with almost every vintage warbird that is still airworthy.
Red 6: The Future of Combat Pilot Training in Augmented Reality
Making Simulation More Immersive and Training More Valuable For decades now, training combat pilots to fly, fight and win has been done in ground simulators and in the air actually…
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Exercise ‘Sentry Savannah’ Kicks Off
This past week the skies around Savannah, GA have roared to the sound of freedom, as the Air National Guard’s premier counter aerial combat training exercise ‘Sentry Savannah’ got underway.…
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Meet America’s Newest Airline, Alaska-Based Northern Pacific Airways
America has a new airline, and a new means of travel to / from Alaska, East Asia and the USA’s lower 48. In January, Northern Pacific Airways unveiled the first plane…
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A Look Back at the Incredible 75th Anniversary of D-Day
This past June marked the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion, where on 6 June 1944 the United States and allies from Canada and Great Britain stormed 50 miles of…
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American Airlines Bids Farewell to MD-80 After Nearly Four Decades of Service
Today, American Airlines (AA) bid a heartfelt farewell to the iconic ‘Mad Dog’ MD-80, closing out a career spanning 37 years with the company, as AA looks ahead and modernizes…
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Fly Along With Oklahoma’s 507th ARW Supporting Tulsa’s VIPERS
U.S. global air superiority comes thanks, in large part, to aerial refuelers, such as KC-135 Stratotankers and their crews at the Oklahoma Air National Guard’s 507th Air Refueling Wing. Everything…
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Watch Canada’s NORAD Tribute CF-18 Fly The MACH LOOP!
The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) Canadian Forces CF-18 Demo Team NORAD Tribute jet is currently across the pond on a two-week trip to the UK to help celebrate the long history between…
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A GEICO Skytyper Has Gone Down in NY, Pilot Lost
UPDATE 6:00pm EDT: Team officials have confirmed that the deceased pilot is Ken Johansen, the team’s Executive Officer and a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, a Naval aviator, and a…
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Thunderbirds Replace Fallen Pilot as Team Prepares for Air Show Return
America’s “Ambassadors in Blue”, the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds, now have a new slot pilot, the #4 position with the team, and he is a former Thunderbird himself. Maj. Nick “Khan” Krajicek, former…
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Check Out Canada’s 2018 Demo Jet Honoring NORAD’s 60th Anniversary
Every year, the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) and their CF-18 Hornet Demo Team paint their air show jet in a special livery, and 2018 is no exception. In recent…
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