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9V-STG during recovery efforts this arvo.

RSAF Black Knights 2 with a load of stores during a regular training sortie. More here

It certainly was. Visibility was down to mere meters when the Stallions were hitting the LZ and kicking up the dust.

Was hosted by the U.S. Marines of the Marine Rotational Force - Darwin last month for Ex. Koolendong 2014 in the Australian outback. More here.

Good on you, Erkuan! Looking forward to pics.

Some of my snaps onboard A350 XWB MSN3: A total of 16 load benches (seen in the foreground) simulate electrical loads on the aircraft during test flights. Flight Test Engineer Station servers can be seen in the background. A flight engineer analyses data at the onboard Flight Test...

My write up on the aerobatic teams at Singapore Airshow, with quotes from interview with team members. Aerobatic spectaculars in store at Singapore Airshow 2014

Nice shots, everyone! Some images from a visit to JASDF's Hyakuri Air Base last year. 1)Two of the three remaining hikotai operating the venerable F-4 Phantom IIs are based in Hyakuri. Here, a 302 Hikotai F-4EJ departs on a morning sortie. 2)501 Hikotai's RF-4E reconnaissance Phantoms depart...

The F-5E/Fs were retrofitted with the refueling probes some time in the late 80s. It wasn't part of the avionics upgrade.

Did a 700km road trip up north to Rockhampton to observe the RSAF operations at Ex. Wallaby 2013. 1. F-16C 611 returns from the Shoalwater Bay military training area on an exercise sortie. It is adorned with special markings from Exercise Top Ace, a biennial competition pitting the RSAF...

The Australian Army put up a great display with their Tiger ARHs and MRH90s at this year's Riverfire in Brisbane. Of note, the MRH90s were recently commissioned into service in July 2013 and this would be their first participation in the annual Riverfire. Couple more on my site here...

Swiss isn't new to the civil aviation scene in Singapore. It flew to Singapore for many years before pulling out in April 2009. This new service will now fly direct Zurich-Singapore without the layover in Bangkok.

A number of F-16s from 140,143 and 145 Sqn received these markings for Ex Hotshot 2012. These should have been taken quite some time back since they've been removed. Some of the vipers had their canopies painted as well.

USAF's E-4B Airborne Command Post arrives into Perth on 13/11 with US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta onboard for the annual Ausmin talks with Australian officials.

Litening targeting pod on starboard, LANTIRN Nav pod on port.