[ad_1] The new Star Wars themed Alaska Airlines Boeing 737, registration N538AS I might as well get this out of the way right at the start: I am a Trekkie. I have tried to love Star Wars and I can appreciate it for what it is. But I have just never been able to get …
[ad_1] Looking out the nose of a B-29 over Seattle – Photo: Jeremy Dwyer-Lindgren Typically we cover airlines and airliners here at AirlineReporter, but occasionally an opportunity in the non-airline[r] worlds pops up that we just can’t pass on. So when the Museum of Flight here at our Seattle HQ announced that Doc, one of …
[ad_1] Air Force One approaching the ramp at SEA It’s arguably the most iconic livery on the most iconic aircraft in service. It’s blue-and-white livery is instantly identifiable to both AvGeeks and those who view planes as simply flying buses. Officially designated the VC-25 by the U.S. Air Force, two heavily-modified Boeing 747-200s have been …
[ad_1] Finnair began service from Helsinki to Seattle on June 2, 2022 Seattle-Tacoma International Airport added its 8th new international carrier since the pandemic began in 2020, as Finnair started service from Helsinki on June 2. Finnair’s A330 received the traditional water cannon salute from the SEA fire department on arrival Finnair will operate the …
[ad_1] Most of our AirlineReporting time and energy goes to this website and Twitter, but we also have a YouTube channel that we don’t want you to forget about. Over there we have some of our favorite window seat views, airport highlights, and other clips saved for your viewing pleasure. We’ve dabbled in some short …
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[ad_1] Few US cities need their airports renovated more desperately than New York does. Its three primary airports have terminal facilities that may have been world-class decades ago, but are congested messes today. Fortunately the powers that be got the memo and are using this decade to get JFK, Newark, and LaGuardia back into shape. …
[ad_1] The safe house hit by the drone strike, before it was covered by green tarps. In the box: al-Zawahiri. (Photos via the New York Post) The precision strike was the culmination of a CIA counterterrorism operation and may have seen the involvement of the “Ninja” Hellfire R9X. United States president Joe Biden announced on …
Al-Qaeda Leader Ayman al-Zawahiri Killed In US Drone Strike. Here’s Everything We Know. Read More »
[ad_1] WS-406 about to land at Aviano AB on Aug. 1, 2022. (All images, credit: Claudio Tramontin) The four Legacy Hornets are from a U.S. Marine Corps contingent deployed to Europe since June. On Aug. 1, 2022, four U.S. Marine Corps F/A-18C, assigned to the Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 323 (VMFA-323) “Death Rattlers”, from MCAS …
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[ad_1] The F-35’s Mk16/US16E ejection seat during testing. (Photo: Martin Baker) The company found that some production lots of the Cartridge Actuated Devices used in the ejection seats might be defective and therefore needs to be replaced. Hundreds of military aircraft around the world have been grounded after ejection seat manufacturer Martin Baker discovered a …
[ad_1] A screenshot from the video of the TF-104G-M of Starfighters Aerospace during the July 2022 maintenance flight from KSC. This is probably the most interesting and detailed cockpit video with audio ever shot in an F-104 Starfighter: from start-up to landing and shut down at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Piercarlo “Capone” Ciacchi is …