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Czech JAS-39 Gripen Fighters Practice Refuelling with Multinational Tanker Aircraft For the first time, Czech JAS-39 Gripen fighter pilots conducted dry-refuelling with an Multinational MRTT Unit (MMU) A-330 tanker aircraft in Czechia on February 13, 2024. Close encounters in Czechia’s Giant Mountains, as Czech Air Force JAS-39 Gripen from ?áslav Air Base conducted air-to-air refuelling training with a huge A-330 Multi-Role Tanker Transport aircraft from the MMU, which operated out of its main base at Eindhoven, The Netherlands. The participants in this exercise trained the dry contact procedure that verified the Czech Air Force JAS-39 Gripen pilots’ ability to make close encounter with the tanker without actually refuelling. The manoeuvre requires a high degree of precision as the aircraft Travel s at a speed over 500 km per hour and the brim of the drogue is only several dozen centimetres from the jet’s cockpit. “Refuelling with this aircraft is not significantly differen...

The year 2022 was significant for a number of important anniversaries. Naturally, this year marks the 50th anniversary of the BMW M division. However, there is one more event that is worth commemorating, and that is the 75th anniversary of the maiden flight of the Hughes H-4 Hercules, which was also the aircraft’s sole flight. More often referred to as the Spruce Goose. Mr. Howard Hughes and the Hughes Aircraft Company were responsible for the construction of the Spruce Goose, which holds the record for being the biggest flying boat that has ever been constructed and is also among the largest aircraft that have ever been constructed in the history of aviation. Hughes has long been regarded as one of the most interesting personalities in the History of aviation, and the creation of the Spruce Goose is often regarded as the crowning accomplishment of his aviation career. However, this unique aircraft, which was once conceived of as a massive Military heavy transporter, wa...