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Bangladesh Air Force pilot airlifted to Kolkata Kolkata: A Bangladesh Air Force plane, flown by a cadet pilot, made an emergency landing in Murshidabad district in Bengal last evening. Air Cadet Rashid, who made the emergency landing, has been flown to Kolkata by the Indian Air Force (IAF)...

Turkey's First Modernised T-38 Jet Trainer Is Delivered Turkish Aerospace Industries, Inc. (TAI), as a prime contractor, was awarded a contract by the Undersecretariat for Defense Industries (SSM) to design, develop and implement an avionics upgrade for the TurAF under the T-38 Avionics...

India sends back Bangladesh Air Force pilot Flight Cadet Rasheed Sheikh of the BAF was flown back to Dhaka today evening from Kolkata in an AN-32 transport aircraft, Sqn Ldr Priya Joshi, IAF spokesperson, said here. Rasheed had taken off from Bangladesh Air Force Academy, based in Jessore...

Bangladesh Air Force pilot airlifted to Kolkata Kolkata: A Bangladesh Air Force plane, flown by a cadet pilot, made an emergency landing in Murshidabad district in Bengal last evening. Air Cadet Rashid, who made the emergency landing, has been flown to Kolkata by the Indian Air Force (IAF). He...

Boeing Begins Maintenance Training for Turkey's Peace Eagle The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has begun an extensive maintenance training program for Turkey's Peace Eagle Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) program at a Boeing facility near Seattle. Classroom training for 10 Turkish Air...

World Military Spending Levels Out After 13 Years of Increases SIPRI: Military Expenditure Rises by 0.3% in 2011, Totalling $1.74 Trillion. World military expenditure in 2011 totalled $1.74 trillion, almost unchanged since 2010 in real terms*, according to figures released today by...

FIDAE 2012: FAdeA to push ahead with Chinese helicopter production Officials from Fabrica Argentina de Aviones (FAdeA) say they hope to fly their first locally assembled Z-11 light helicopter at the end of this year. The plans follow a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed with Chinese...