Ukraine has lost a “mega talent,” the country’s air force spokesperson has said, commenting on the death of fighter pilot Andrey ‘Juice’ Pilshchikov. One of the faces of Kiev’s campaign for the delivery of F-16 fighter jets, he was killed along with two of his colleagues during a training flight …
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A US Navy fighter jet pilot was killed on Friday when his F/A-18E Super Hornet crashed in the Mojave Desert of Southern California, marking at least the fourth such incident in the area in recent years. The jet, based at Naval Air Station Lemoore between Los Angeles and San Francisco, …
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Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko returned home after spending some 10 years in a US prison over his alleged involvement in a drug smuggling scheme. Yaroshenko spoke to RT about the horrors he has endured. “I was kidnapped by the US authorities, their intelligence, the DEA, and Liberia’s NSA on May …
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Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko, who spent some 12 years in a US prison was exchanged on Wednesday for US national Trevor Reed sentenced to nine years behind bars back in 2020. The exchange became possible following a “lengthy negotiation process” Russian diplomats have said. The exchange, which took place in …
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US national Trevor Reed, sentenced to nine years’ jail in Russia in 2020, has been exchanged for Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko, who had been serving a 20-year sentence in a US prison since 2010, Russia’s Foreign Ministry announced on Wednesday. Russian diplomats told journalists that the swap was the result …
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A private military contractor piloting a French-made Mirage F1 fighter jet suffered minor injuries ejecting from the cabin as the aircraft went down in a non-residential area of Arizona on Thursday morning, the US Air Force has revealed. The incident unfolded around 11 am local time, some 15 miles away …
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Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers rescued a pilot from his crashed plane just seconds before a train slammed into the aircraft, with the shocking footage going viral online. In police body camera footage, officers could be seen racing to pull the severely injured pilot out of his plane, which …
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Larry Visoski, who testified he flew Epstein to his private island in the Caribbean “at least every 10 days for 20 years,” told the court on Tuesday during the second day of Maxwell’s trial that it was “not unusual” for Maxwell – Epstein’s close confidante and the alleged procurer of …
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Two T-38C Talon training aircraft were involved in “an aircraft accident” on the runway around 10 am local time (1600 GMT) on Friday, Laughlin AFB said on Facebook. One pilot died on the scene. Another was taken to the Val Verde Regional Medical Center in Del Rio, treated and released. …
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In a flashy teaser released on Monday, Rostec and Russia’s publicly owned aerospace giant UAC showed off renderings of the fifth-generation Sukhoi Su-75, codenamed ‘Checkmate.’ A variant of the stealth jet, they confirmed, will be made available without a cockpit. Instead, its onboard computer will allow it to fly autonomously, …
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