AirForces Monthly Magazine

Time’s up for the T-Bird

22nd May 2025

Subscribe to www.airforcesmonthly.com for breaking news stories. E-mail the news team at edafm@keypublishing.com COMMENT One of the last four operational T-33s before the type’s retirement from Bolivian service on July 31. Anthony Pecchi EL ALTO INTERNATIONAL Airport in La Paz is well known among civil aviation observers as the highest international airport in the world, […]

BACK IN BUSINESS

22nd May 2025

Britain’s newest and biggest aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth (R08), is approaching the end of a first phase of sea trials. Tim Ripley visited her in Rosyth dockyard and reports on the UK’s return to the aircraft carrier business. HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH A fine aerial view of HMS ‘Queen Elizabeth’ shortly after sailing from Rosyth […]

Couteau Delta

22nd May 2025

P Olivier and J Lemoigne report on the establishment of the French Air Force’s latest display team – Couteau Delta – and interview one of its pilots. MIRAGE DISPLAY TEAM With the demise of Ramex Delta it looked as though it was the end for the Armée de l’Air’s tactical display teams. The arrival of […]

@FREEDOM AT WORK

22nd May 2025

In the wake of the first US kill of a manned aircraft since Operation Allied Force in 1999, AFM’s Vangelis Antonakis went aboard USS George H W Bush in the eastern Mediterranean to hear a first-hand report of the shootdown at a time of escalating tensions in the region. CVN 77 IN THE MED F/A-18C […]

Black Sea defenders

22nd May 2025

NATO has responded to increased Russian military air activity...

ISRAELI FLIGHT TEST CENTER

22nd May 2025

The Israeli Fight Test Center is the subject of the first in...

Changing of the guard at Grottaglie

22nd May 2025

With the introduction of the NH90 the Italian Navy has a modern,...

LOKI’S GUARDIANS

22nd May 2025

Earlier this year the Royal Canadian Air Force deployed six CF-188...

Panavia Tornado

End of the line for an RAF Tornado unofficially named 'Pinky'

22nd May 2025

A special Royal Air Force Tornado GR4, painted in ‘desert pink’ colours as a tribute to Operation Granby in 1991, has been retired as the type enters its final chapter in service, as Rich Cooper reports.