Indonesia Signs for 60 Electric Air Taxis

Indonesia Signs for 60 Electric Air Taxis

Share this story Jakarta’s traffic is the stuff of legend — the kind of gridlock where a five-mile trip can eat two hours. Now an Indonesian operator wants to fly over it. On August 12, Whitesky Aviation signed a memorandum of understanding for 60 electric air taxis,...
Russia Claims One Su-35 Downed Two Su-27s

Russia Claims One Su-35 Downed Two Su-27s

Share this story Air-to-air kills have been the rarest currency of the war over Ukraine. Both sides fly at the edges of each other’s missile range, lob long-shots, and turn for home. So when Moscow claims a single fighter dropped two enemy jets in one pass, it is...
The Biplanes That Flew Over Everest

The Biplanes That Flew Over Everest

Share this story Twenty years before Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay set foot on the summit of Mount Everest, two men in open-cockpit biplanes looked down on it from above. On April 3, 1933, a small British expedition did something that sounds impossible for the...
NATO Guns Down a Drone Over Latvia

NATO Guns Down a Drone Over Latvia

Share this story On the morning of August 14, 2026, NATO fighter jets on Baltic Air Policing duty scrambled over eastern Latvia and shot down a drone that had crossed into the alliance’s airspace. The Latvian military said the aircraft had strayed into the...
India Opens a $10 Billion Airlifter Contest

India Opens a $10 Billion Airlifter Contest

Share this story India has just fired the starting gun on one of the biggest military aircraft competitions in the world. On August 12, 2026, its Defence Ministry issued a formal request for proposals for sixty new medium transport aircraft, opening a contest worth...
An Army Apache Goes Down in Texas

An Army Apache Goes Down in Texas

Share this story A routine flight over central Texas ended in tragedy on August 12, 2026, when a U.S. Army AH-64E Apache crashed near the town of Salado, killing both crew members aboard. The helicopter came down at around 1:30 in the afternoon, and the wreckage...