SCHIPHOL, NETHERLANDS – A hard, hairy landing for a Boeing 747 cargo aircraft from Singapore Airlines Cargo on Wednesday afternoon at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS). A short but powerful unofficial southwesterly storm (no name) developed rapidly over the English Channel and raged across the Netherlands with wind gusts of 62 mph (100 kph). Initially the 747 was forced to perform
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SINGAPORE – Watch in this next video from YouTuber Tedd Jong how the U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor Demo Team performed its demo on February 11, day 1 of one of the first airshows in the world of this year’s airshow season – the Singapore Airshow. The 2020 edition of Asia’s largest Aerospace and Defence Event is held from February 11-16 at
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SINGAPORE – Watch in this next video from YouTuber Tedd Jong how a U.S. Marine Corps F-35B of the Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 121 (VMFA-121) ‘Green Knights’ – based at MCAS Iwakuni in Japan – performs a STOVL demo at one of the first airshows in the world of this year’s airshow season – the Singapore Airshow. The 2020 edition
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SINGAPORE – March 1, 2019. According to Reuters, Singapore plans to buy an initial 4 F-35 fighter jets from Lockheed Martin, with an option to purchase 8 more, as it looks to replace its ageing F-16 fleet, the city-state’s defense minister Ng Eng Hen said earlier today. Ng Eng Hen said in parliament that the ministry of defense will issue
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