USAF Provide ‘Sale of the Century’ to US Corporate Aircraft Manufacturers: USAF has released a Request For Proposals (RFP) for up to 120 corporate-type aircraft to replace the Rockwell International CT-39 Sabreliner currently used in the operational support fleet. USAF are primarily interested in leasing the entire aircraft fleet including subcontracting maintenance and support tasks

It’s Only a Mirage: The phantom glitches struck again at the editor’s cover caption for the December issue. Believe it or not, at one time the top Mirage was a dualseat 1110 but certainly not when it became finished artwork. Reader response to our specially commissioned cover portraits by Mitch Lovett has been overwhelming and

One of the aeronautical engineering achievements of recent times was certainly Boeing’s launch of two brand-new aircraft programmes almost simultaneously. While sharing a measure of designed-in commonality, the 767 and 757 twins represent a joint development effort second to none in commercial aviation. The smaller of the twins is the 757. This attractive aircraft was

What Defence Might One of the US Navy’s Carrier Battle Groups Put up Against a Co-ordinated Attack by a Regiment of Soviet Backfire Bombers, a Missile Cruiser Task Force and a Nuclear-Powered ASM Submarine? In This Dramatised Scenario, a Seasoned Aerospace Writer Shows Us How Such a ‘Game’ Might Come Out… The view from ten