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Boeing NewGen Tanker Enters Air Force KC-X Competition

Boeing's pitch for the US Air Force's latest tanker competition will be a 767-based jet retrofitted with displays from the state-of-the-art 787 flight deck, among other improvements.
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This is Syria's only operational Ilyushin Il-76 transport aircraft (YK-ATA), seen here at Paris-Le Bourget Airport in 2009. It may have been used to transport Mil Mi-25 attack helicopters to Syria from Russia through Iraqi airspace. (Photo by twin-otter64 via Flickr, CC-BY-NC-SA)

Did Syria Transport Russian Attack Helicopters Through Iraqi Airspace?

In late October, Syria asked Iraqi authorities to grant air access for a cargo plane transporting refurbed attack helicopters from Russia.
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Four Die in Air Force C-17 Cargo Plane Crash at Elmendorf AFB in Alaska

Four airmen killed when US Air Force C-17 Globemaster crashes at Elmendorf Air Force base in Anchorage.
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Military Plane Crashes in Morocco, Killing 78

Nearly 80 people were killed on Tuesday morning when a Moroccan Royal Armed Forces C-130 Hercules transport aircraft crashed into a southern Morocco mountain during bad weather, state-run media reported. There were three surviv...
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The B-25 "Grumpy". (Photo by Bryan Heim/NYCAviation)

Mission Briefing: Doolittle Raiders 70th Anniversary Flight Prepares for Departure

The World War II B-25 bomber known as Grumpy will soon make a historic flight commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Doolittle Raid.
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