Mil Mi-24 Hind

Mil Mi-24 Hind The Mil Mi-24 Hind is a large helicopter gunship and attack helicopter and low-capacity troop transport with room for eight passengers

The Mil Mi-24 (Russian: Миль Ми-24; NATO reporting name: Hind) is a large helicopter gunship and attack helicopter and low-capacity troop transport with room for eight passengers. It is produced by Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant and operated since 1972 by the Soviet Air Force, its successors, and more than 30 other nations.

Eight months. That's how long Bell engineers had to build the AH-1 Cobra from a sketch on a napkin to the world's first ...
28/05/2026

Eight months. That's how long Bell engineers had to build the AH-1 Cobra from a sketch on a napkin to the world's first dedicated attack helicopter.

Vietnam needed gunships fast. Bell delivered something that would still be flying half a century later.

Full story: https://migflug.com/jetflights/ah-1-cobra-bell-209-origin-vietnam-gunship-history/

Bell built the AH-1 Cobra in just eight months — from blank paper to flying prototype. The birth of the world's first dedicated attack helicopter.

The photo looks impossible. A 28-tonne, sixty-foot Tupolev Tu-134 airliner — hanging in midair beneath a single helicopt...
28/05/2026

The photo looks impossible. A 28-tonne, sixty-foot Tupolev Tu-134 airliner — hanging in midair beneath a single helicopter. Not a model. Not a fake. A real Soviet Mi-26 doing the unthinkable.

The Mi-26 is the heaviest helicopter ever to enter production. And on this day, it picked up a regional airliner like it was a piece of cargo. The sling-lift photograph that defies belief.

https://migflug.com/jetflights/mil-mi-26-helicopter-lifting-tupolev-tu-134-airliner/

The Mil Mi-26 — the largest production helicopter in the world — sling-lifting a Tupolev Tu-134 commercial airliner. How the only heavy-lift rotorcraft in the world works.

Africa's most populous nation just rolled out a jet that's going to reshape its air force.Nigeria's first Leonardo M-346...
12/05/2026

Africa's most populous nation just rolled out a jet that's going to reshape its air force.

Nigeria's first Leonardo M-346FA — light fighter, advanced trainer's agility, real combat punch — fresh out of the Italian assembly line in full war paint.

https://migflug.com/jetflights/nigeria-m-346fa-light-fighter-leonardo-livery/

Nigeria has shown off its first Leonardo M-346FA light fighter in full operational livery — a quiet shift in African airpower.

13 May 1940. A Russian-born immigrant climbed into a flimsy contraption of welded steel tubing in a field in Stratford, ...
12/05/2026

13 May 1940. A Russian-born immigrant climbed into a flimsy contraption of welded steel tubing in a field in Stratford, Connecticut, lifted one and a half metres into the air, hovered for fifteen seconds, and set the contraption back down. That was Igor Sikorsky — and his VS-300 was the moment the modern helicopter was born.

Read the story: https://migflug.com/jetflights/sikorsky-vs-300-first-practical-helicopter-1940/

On 13 May 1940, a Russian-born immigrant in his early fifties stood in a field in Stratford, Connecticut, climbed into a flimsy contraption made of welded steel tubing, and lifted himself one and a half metres into the air. He hovered for fifteen seconds, set the machine back down, and stepped out s...

A fighter that took off standing on its tail. Convair's XFY Pogo bolted two contra-rotating turboprops to a 16-foot prop...
08/05/2026

A fighter that took off standing on its tail. Convair's XFY Pogo bolted two contra-rotating turboprops to a 16-foot prop and asked the pilot to lay flat on his back during launch. It actually flew — but landing it was a different story. Vertical takeoff dreams from the 1950s. https://migflug.com/jetflights/convair-xfy-pogo-tail-sitter-vtol-fighter-coleman/

The aircraft sits on its tail in the hangar. The pilot climbs a ladder, then climbs another, until he is sitting almost flat on his back, looking straight up at the hangar ceiling. He starts two contra-rotating turboprops driving 16-foot propellers. He releases the brakes. The Convair XFY-1 Pogo lif...

Pulled from the Arizona desert. Dusted off. And rolled back into service.A B-1B Lancer that was already retired to the B...
07/05/2026

Pulled from the Arizona desert. Dusted off. And rolled back into service.

A B-1B Lancer that was already retired to the Boneyard at Davis-Monthan is heading back to Dyess Air Force Base — and it tells you everything you need to know about how thin the bomber fleet has gotten.

Full story: https://migflug.com/jetflights/b-1b-lancer-pulled-from-boneyard-davis-monthan-dyess/

For the first time ever, a retired B-1B Lancer has been pulled from Davis-Monthan storage, restored to flight, and returned to active service at Dyess AFB. Why now.

The UH-60 Black Hawk just got teeth. Sikorsky has bolted a Hellfire missile kit onto the Army's workhorse — turning the ...
07/05/2026

The UH-60 Black Hawk just got teeth. Sikorsky has bolted a Hellfire missile kit onto the Army's workhorse — turning the troop transport into a hunter. The line between utility helicopter and gunship just got blurrier. https://migflug.com/jetflights/sikorsky-armed-black-hawk-uh-60-hellfire-kit/

Sikorsky has unveiled an Armed Black Hawk kit that turns any UH-60M into a light-attack helicopter — Hellfires, rocket pods, miniguns, all field-removable.

Five aircraft shot down in less than sixty seconds. Still a world record. Still almost impossible to believe.In Septembe...
04/05/2026

Five aircraft shot down in less than sixty seconds. Still a world record. Still almost impossible to believe.

In September 1965, Pakistani fighter ace M.M. Alam tore through an Indian Hawker Hunter formation with surgical precision that has never been matched. Nine confirmed kills in the war, five of them in a single, white-knuckle sortie that lasted barely a minute.

The kind of combat performance that gets studied at every fighter weapons school on the planet.

https://migflug.com/jetflights/m-m-alam-the-pakistani-ace-who-shot-down-five-aircraft-in-under-a-minute/

M.M. Alam shot down 5 aircraft in under a minute in 1965 — one of the greatest feats in aerial combat history. Discover Pakistan's legendary fighter ace.

Takeoff and landing account for just 6 minutes of a typical flight — but they're responsible for the vast majority of fa...
24/04/2026

Takeoff and landing account for just 6 minutes of a typical flight — but they're responsible for the vast majority of fatal accidents. Here's what makes those few minutes so critical.

https://migflug.com/jetflights/the-five-most-dangerous-minutes-of-every-flight/

The flight is one hour long. For 55 minutes of it, practically nothing bad can happen. The aircraft is at cruise altitude, the autopilot is engaged, and the most dangerous object in the cockpit is probably the coffee. But the first two and a half minutes after takeoff and the last two and a half [.....

What happens when you strap a jet engine to a bomb? You get the GBU-75 — a weapon that can fly hundreds of miles to its ...
24/04/2026

What happens when you strap a jet engine to a bomb? You get the GBU-75 — a weapon that can fly hundreds of miles to its target before impact. The line between bombs and missiles just got a lot blurrier.

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