Not a Bee, yes.
On this video, notice the linear oscilliation of the front oleo moving back and forth after touchdown.
Lockheed’s CH-53K helicopter to make global debut at Berlin air show: sources
The U.S. Marine Corps expect to declare the CH-53K ready for combat use in 2019. They have said the average cost of the huge aircraft will be around $88 million a copy. The cost could drop somewhat if Germany, Israel and Japan also buy the planes.
Source:
Reuters
Airliners And F-15s Involved In Bizarre Encounter With Mystery Aircraft Over Oregon
“Just landed in Seattle coming from the bay area. Beginning over Southern Oregon we kept overhearing Seattle Center attempting to track an airplane with no transponder who wasn’t talking. A handful of crews were able to track it visually, best they could tell it was between FL350-370 [35,000-37,000 feet], northbound. Nobody close enough to see the type.
Last we heard it was over the Willamette valley northbound and some fighters, perhaps out of PDX [Portland International Airport], were scrambled to go take a peek. Center had trouble tracking it on primary radar.
Strange! My theory is they were running drugs to Canada. No news yet, not that I could find.
**Update 0500z. Called SEA ARTCC. The gentleman I spoke with said that they initially got alerted to the aircraft from Oakland Center who was painting it on primary [illuminating it with radar, but without transponder information]. For whatever reason they couldn’t track it themselves on primary, […]”
Source:
The Drive.com
Russia’s ‘proof’ that U.S. helps ISIS is from a video game. Mistakes happen, Kremlin says.
Russian drones, the Foreign Ministry in Moscow said on social media, spotted the convoy fleeing Bukamal on Nov. 9, the same day Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces said they captured the key militant stronghold on the Euphrates River. Their safe passage was “irrefutable evidence” that the United States allows the Islamic State to wreak havoc to meet its interests in the region, the ministry said on Facebook and Twitter.
If you’re a gamer interested in air combat simulators, you may have already seen the convoy before you gunned downed digital enemies on your computer screen while playing AC-130 Gunship Simulator: Special Ops Squadron, released in 2015 by the Byte Conveyor game studio.

Source:
The Washington Post
Additional nations could join with Italy for new attack helicopter
speaking at a Dubai air show event, Leonardo’s group chief commercial officer Lorenzo Mariani said the helicopter is “not only for Italy”.
“It is a basis for collaboration – we believe that other nations can join this project,” says Mariani, confirming the AW249 designation.
Source:
FlightGlobal.com
Airbus says its latest contract has boosted total sales of the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW127-powered C295 to 203 units, including 51 ordered by operators in the Middle East and North Africa region.
An impressive success
Source:
FlightGlobal.com
Nobody intrigued by the lack of uniformity on the camo pattern?
Incredible news:
Super Hornet could be chosen as Bulgaria’s next fighter jet by July
Interest in the Super Hornet indicates that a new major competitor could join the Bulgarian tender, under which the country is aiming to replace its Soviet-designed Mikoyan MiG-29 aircraft with Western-made fighters. The planned contract is estimated to be worth some 1.5 billion levs (U.S. $890.9 million).
Source:
DefenseNews.com
Dassault to modernize UAE’s Mirage fleet for a reported $350M
Given than 350M$ are said tpo be budgeted for roughly 60 planes (?), that should give us more or less 6 to 10M$ per planes depending on the number upgraded.
What this money will go for? AESA? defense suite, new pod?
Any speculation?
Enemies?…. wow!
Wish it will give you my dear friends a sense of the terrible backlog in troubles we face today. And if things seems moving at a slow pace, they are not in anyway a sign of any inactivity. A tremendous dynamism reigns under the surface in order to spur that old horse forward.
Good news is that “La pucelle d’Orleans” is alive and still have good hearing.
It doesn’t come as a surprise. In fact, this constitutes an alley for the Eu industry ready to compromize more openly some of its tech in acccordance with a less restricted view on geopolitics.
A vast niche to fill for Dassault or BAe ; If they had the right product ready.
Thing is that no more does a certain fringe of France see the Rafale as eternal. Thanks to our Saxons friends (read the term in its largest sense) we have moved a step forward toward A future…
If by “managed efficiently” you meant driven in a dead-end, I concur to your opinion.
Look at the numbers…
Blindness itself would have had more foresight!
don’t know if this has been posted before.