Joint Strike Fighter X-Plane Competition
The Introduction…………….. The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II was the victor of the Joint Strike Fighter X-Plane Competition where its X-35 test plane beat Boeing’s X-32 test plane. It is important to...
View ArticleAir Show – 2014 Wings Over Illawarra
The Wings Over Illawarra Air Show is an event occurring in May every year at the Illawarra Regional Airport at Albion Park Rail near Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. The event includes an air...
View ArticleLockheed Martin F-35 – Oct’14 Contracts
The Joint Strike Fighter Program and its Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II 5th Generation Fighter plane had a busy month in October 2014 with about $10 billion worth of contracts agreed. The contracts...
View ArticleThe Gloster Meteor – Australia’s Jet Fighter at the Korean War
The Gloster Meteor is a fighter aircraft used extensively by the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) and Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Korean War. The Meteor was first flown by the RAF in 1944 during...
View ArticleThunderbirds vs Real Planes
On a grey and gloomy summers day over the Christmas break I was lucky to come across an episode of the Thunderbirds just as the countdown began “5, 4, 3, 2, 1 – Thunderbirds are Go!” As the credits...
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