‘Salute from the Shore’ to include Apache helicopters for July 4 flyover

Salute from the Shore, an Independence Day tradition along the South Carolina coast, will introduce new aircraft this year.
Tech Xplore

Robotic bird helps uncover the mysteries of flight turbulence

A bio-inspired robotic bird capable of mimicking the key movements of kestrels is helping researchers unravel the mysteries ...
bobsurgranny on MSN

Watch the Apache and Jupiter HC.2 in action - then the helicopter drill gets serious

British helicopter crews show two very different sides of military aviation, with AH-64E Apache pilot training followed by a ...

NASA’s X-59 “frankenjet” tests supersonic flight without the sonic boom

More than two decades since the Concorde supersonic airliner last took to the skies, NASA has been flying an experimental ...
The National Interest

These Five Air Forces Are by Far the World’s Largest

All five nations on this list have tremendous airpower relative to the global average—but one is larger than the next four ...

Airbus’s U145 autonomous helicopter takes off without a cockpit, marking the first flight of an “air taxi” without a human pilot on board

Airbus debuts the U145, an autonomous helicopter built for cargo and rescue. See how this pilotless aircraft is reshaping ...

Video shows Boeing 777 making very low pass over Texas airfield

Data from FlightRadar24 showed the plane was no more than 25 feet above the ground during the low pass as it approached the ...
Aviation Week Network

Delta Begins Fleetwide Installation Of VCT’s Drag-Reducing 737 Finlets

Delta Air Lines is installing drag-reducing finlets across its fleet of 240 Boeing 737-800s and -900ERs following an extensive in-service evaluation with developer Vortex Control Technologies that ...
C.W. Lemoine on MSN

F-35 pilot crashes Apache during an orientation flight

Fox 13 reports that an F-35 pilot was at the controls when a Utah ANG Apache crashed during an orientation flight.