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The Royal Thai Navy—consisting of several vessels, including two coastal defence ships, twelve torpedo boats and four submarines—was inferior to the French naval forces, but the Royal Thai Air Force held both a quantitative and qualitative edge over l'Armee de l'Air. [2] Among the 140 aircraft that composed the air force's first-line ...
January 14 – At the Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards Air Force Base, California, a U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command B-58 Hustler sets a new world speed record for a flight carrying a 2,000-kilogram (4,409-pound) payload over a 1,000-kilometer (620-mile) course, averaging 1,284.73 mph (2,067.57 km/h).
A US Air Force North American F-100C Super Sabre [102] of the 136th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 107th Tactical Fighter Group, New York Air National Guard, departed Niagara Falls Air Force Base, New York, on a training flight to Erie, Pennsylvania, but pilot Lt. Edward Metlot, of New York City, was informed by his wingman that his plane was on fire.
A French Air and Space Force Dassault Rafale B at RIAT in 2009 Crotale missile-launchers of the Air Defense Ground-to-Air Squadron of the French Air and Space Force Some French airbases house radar units (e.g. Lyon, Mont-Verdun, Drachenbronn, Cinq-Mars-la-Pile, Nice, Mont-Agel) to carry out air defence radar surveillance and air traffic control.
The Escadron de Chasse 2/4 Lafayette (Fighter Squadron 2/4 La Fayette) is a squadron of the French Air and Space Force (Armée de l'air et de l'espace). It is currently stationed at BA 113 Saint-Dizier – Robinson Air Base (ICAO: LFSI), and is equipped with the Dassault Rafale C. [1] The squadron has a long history dating back to the First World War, and has seen service in the Second World ...
List of Soviet aircraft losses during the Soviet–Afghan War List of Russian aircraft losses in the Second Chechen War List of aviation shootdowns and accidents during the Iraq War
Chaufty, a U.S. Army Air Force pilot, was on an armed reconnaissance mission when his P-47 Thunderbolt plane was hit by enemy fire, according to an Army report compiled two days later.
The U.S. Air Force grounds its Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcars for a fleetwide engine inspection after incidents and accidents led to four forced or crashed landings within a week. A total of 145 paratroopers and air force crew were involved in the four accidents in which two men were killed.