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Just a Nice Pic Competition – Top 10!

18th November 2022

Combat Aircraft Journal presents ten outstanding images from its first ‘just a nice pic’ competition.

Aircraft Deliveries

RNLAF receives final CH-47F Chinook from Boeing

18th November 2022

Boeing has delivered the 20th and final CH-47F Chinook to the Royal Netherlands Air Force

Business Jet

Falcon 7X spotted in Indonesian Air Force colours

18th November 2022

A Dassault Falcon 7X business jet wearing the markings of the Indonesian Air Force has been spotted in the Netherlands ahead of what is believed to be the aircraft’s imminent delivery to the Asian air arm

Microsoft Flight Simulator

Telluride 2022 for Microsoft Flight Simulator out now

18th November 2022

Scenery developer UK2000 has released Telluride Regional Airport for Microsoft Flight Simulator.

North American P-51 Mustang

Mustang engine reaches Sywell

17th November 2022

The Packard Merlin engine and propeller from a P-51D Mustang have been donated to Sywell Aviation Museum for restoration and display

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British Airways reveals BRAND-NEW destination in United States

17th November 2022

Plans for a new transatlantic route have been unveiled. Due to launch from next Summer, it will become the flag carrier’s 27th US destination served directly from London. Find out where now…

Acquisitions

Romania inks €388m deal to buy F-16s from Norway

17th November 2022

A contract for the sale of 32 second-hand Royal Norwegian Air Force Lockheed Martin F-16AM/BM (MLU) Fighting Falcons to Romania was signed by the Romanian government and the Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency on November 4

Airbus

JetBlue confirm NEW European destination

16th November 2022

The US-based carrier plans to expand its transatlantic network with a highly anticipated destination next summer. Find out which city now by reading on Key.Aero…

B-25 Mitchell

Mitchell and Bolingbroke for East Kirkby

16th November 2022

The Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre – home to Lancaster Just Jane – has now received a B-25 Mitchell and two Bolingbrokes

Akureyri

New Icelandic destination for Microsoft Flight Simulator

16th November 2022

Scenery developer, ST Simulations has released Akureyri Airport for Microsoft Flight Simulator.

Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW)

Sweden joins list of nations looking to axe NH90 helicopter fleet

15th November 2022

After Belgium, Australia and Norway announced plans to axe and replace their respective NHIndustries NH90 helicopter fleets, Gen Micael Bydén – the Supreme Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces – revealed that Sweden would follow suit in a recently published defence modernisation and procurement guidance report

RAF Museum

Defiant among RAF Museum items for ‘adoption’

15th November 2022

To mark its half century, the RAF Museum has made several items available for ‘adoption’ – including its Boulton Paul Defiant

Dublin

Landmarks Dublin City Pack released

15th November 2022

Orbx has announced Landmarks Dublin City Pack for Microsoft Flight Simulator is now available.

Boeing

Secretive X-37B spaceplane returns from record-breaking two-year mission

15th November 2022

The US Space Force’s secretive Boeing X-37B OTV – a highly classified, unmanned, reusable spaceplane – has returned to Earth after successfully completing its sixth operational mission, during which the platform beat its own previous flight duration record by remaining in orbit for 908 days before landing