Due at St Mawgan on Monday for a 3 day air-power demo and then a week long collective training exercise are the following.
16 - 18 x Tornado GR4/F3
6 - 8 x Harrier GR7
2 x Typhoon<br...   

I have had a huge site update with lots of news and info on many airshows and a new chat facility. Please visit http://members.lycos.co.uk/samairpics
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Airshows 2004

Workers at Lockheed Martin's mile-long factory in Fort Worth have begun assembling the forward fuselage for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, a next-generation, supersonic stealth aircraft designed to...

Prague approves Gripen lease deal
The Czech government has approved a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to lease 14 Saab Aerospace/BAE Systems JAS 39 Gripen multirole fighter aircraft f...

PS002, the fifth Eurofighter Typhoon Instrumented Production Aircraft (IPA5), successfully carried out its first flight on 7th June 2004, at BAE Systems Warton, United Kingdom. IPA5 took off from W... 
Source: PR Newswire (9th June, 2004)

China is about to receive 24 advanced Sukhoi Su-30MK2 Flanker fighters from Russia. The new fighter jets are reported to be the naval versions of the Sukhoi Su-30MKK fighter. The new Chinese fighters ...

On the 29 of June 2004, The 1 Wing of Beauvechain will organise a unique European Trainers Meet. Public (photographers) will be alowed on base for a photocall. Entrance fee will be EUR 20,-.
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The AMI is organizing a big open day at Pratica Di Mare for next 30 May, a pilot meeting will be held the previous day, the 29 but from HQ is not yet confirm if also this last day will be open at t...

£1BN HAWK JET DEAL HAS A LOW-KEY CONCLUSION
Brough: Nineteen years of uncertainty over a £1bn BAE Systems Hawk jets deal has finally reached a successful conclusion.
The huge contract with t...

"I'm a Still Photographer for the USAF and I was stationed at MHAFB during the air show. I was on the catwalk of the tower at Mtn Home along with another photog (video) and about seven other (military...

The first Italian-produced "Typhoon" Eurofighter entered service yesterday. The Italian air force has concluded their agreement with Alenia Aeronautica - a Finmeccanica company co-producer of the a... 
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The first batch of the F-16I "Sufa" (storm) advance fighter bombers arrived in Israel Thursday afternoon, and were received at a ceremony attended by the Minister of Defense and the IDF's Chief of Sta...

These two stories have even made the Russian press. The last paragraph would suggest that the FBI and the DoD are as interested as I am in how the Hornet came to end-up in private hands:
Two S...

Here is the Patrouille de France Display team dates for 2004, Hopefully this will confirm European and  French Airshows for 2004.    
see below:
     CALENDRIER / AIRSHO...

Russian leading airplane manufacturing companies MiG and Sukhoi took interest in Russian Vice Premier Boris Alyoshin's proposal to form within the next two years a single national airplane manufact...
[i]Source: RIA Novosti (27th January, 2004

The government has put off a decision on a £13 billion military jet programme, selecting a consortium led by Airbus parent EADS for further talks but dropping one led by arch rival Boeing.
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Three manufacturers competing to supply Singapore's next combat aircraft are due to deliver detailed proposals around the end of this month (February).
Singapore narrowed the list of candidate...

The US Air Force is considering a continuous presence of bomber aircraft on the island of Guam as it mulls potential force-structure changes in the Pacific theatre, according to the air force's com...

Reports on the various e-mail groups that HOSER 21 [F-15C] serial not known, landed at 1500 local on 20.01.04 with right gear still retracted.
There was minimal damage to the aircraft and than...   [smiley=ap

A bungling US Air Force jet fighter crew are under investigation after dropping a training bomb on a Yorkshire farmyard.
The F-15E Strike Eagle was on a bombing exercise when its 23in dummy...