Ukraine Strikes Russia’s Shahed Sites in Crimea
Long before a Russian Shahed reaches a Ukrainian city, it has to be stored, fuelled, launched and guided. On the night of August 6–7, Ukraine went after that entire chain at once, striking a drone launch site, an early-warning radar and the relay stations that...
Etihad Flies the Silk Road to Tashkent
On August 9, an Etihad Airways Airbus A320 lifted out of Abu Dhabi bound for Tashkent, reopening a link to the old Silk Road — and, with it, an entire country’s worth of onward connections. The new daily nonstop is only half the story. Paired with a...
The Hunt for the Red Arrows’ Next Jet
For half a century the Red Arrows have signed the British sky in red, white and blue, drawn by nine BAE Hawks flying wingtip to wingtip. This summer the signature was incomplete: worn-out Hawk T1s forced the team to fly seven jets for most of its 2026 displays rather...
Southwest Turns Burbank Into a Hawaii Gateway
Hollywood Burbank Airport is the little airport that Angelenos love precisely because it is not LAX. Two terminals, a walk across the tarmac to the stairs, quick hops to Las Vegas and the Bay Area. It is not the sort of place you associate with a five-and-a-half-hour...
A Robot Built the Part That Saved This C-17
A hailstorm, two runaway business jets, and a nose panel that nobody would build. That is the short version of how a U.S. Air Force C-17 ended up grounded for the better part of a year and a half. The long version ends with a robot, a research lab in Ohio, and the...
Lilium’s Air Taxis Land in a Museum
The dream was an electric jet that would whisk you between cities in near silence, lifting off vertically from a rooftop and cruising on stubby wings packed with tiny fans. Lilium, the Munich start-up that raised well over a billion dollars chasing that dream,...
Iran Puts a Downed Strike Eagle on Display
Iran has turned a hole in the ground into a trophy case. This week the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps threw open an underground “exhibition” of American and Israeli aircraft it says its air defences knocked out of the sky. The centrepiece is a mangled...
The Last Aircraft Curtiss-Wright Ever Built
The name Curtiss-Wright carried a century of aviation in it — the fusion of Glenn Curtiss’s company with the firm founded by the Wright brothers themselves. For decades it built engines, propellers and aircraft that helped win two world wars. And then, in...
The Jet With Giant Fans Hidden in Its Wings
Most vertical-takeoff jets of the 1960s did the obvious thing: point the engine nozzles down and blast the aircraft off the ground. Ryan’s XV-5 Vertifan did something far stranger. It hid two enormous fans inside its wings, spun them with its own jet exhaust,...
The Giant That Flew Before the Fighters
In 1913, while the rest of the world was still coaxing flimsy single-engine biplanes into the air for a few shaky minutes, a 24-year-old Russian rolled out an aircraft with four engines, a heated passenger lounge, electric lighting, and a washroom. It was called the...
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