Molotov’s Bomber: The 1942 Pe-8 Flight to Washington
Share this story On 19 May 1942 a four-engined bomber lifted off from Ramenskoye, outside Moscow, and turned west towards a continent that Germany controlled from the Atlantic to the Volga. In the fuselage, sitting on a bench in a heavy flying suit with an oxygen mask...
Arms Broker Jailed 16 Years Over Libya and Sudan Jet Deals
Share this story There is an aviation business that never appears at Farnborough. It buys fighter aircraft that no air force wants any more, from countries that need the money, and sells them to countries that are not allowed to buy weapons at all. On Wednesday a...
Heart ES-36: JSX Backs a 36-Seat Hybrid-Electric Airliner
Share this story Heart Aerospace has thrown away its own aeroplane and drawn a better one. On Wednesday the Swedish company unveiled the ES-36, a 36-seat hybrid-electric regional airliner that replaces the ES-30 it has been promoting since 2022. Six more seats, 1,415...
Rafale Flies With AI: Dassault Tests Two Cockpit Algorithms
Share this story Dassault Aviation said on Monday that it has flown a Rafale carrying two new artificial intelligence systems, both designed to help the person in the cockpit rather than replace them. One was written in-house by Dassault’s own engineers. The...
KF-21 Boramae: South Korea Delivers Its First Production Fighter
Share this story On Tuesday a Korean fighter took off from a Korean factory, flown by a Korean air force major who had just signed for it, and landed at a Korean air base. Twenty-five and a half years after a president promised it, South Korea has handed its air force...
FAA Modernisation: Duffy Asks Congress for $30 Billion More
Share this story Congress put $12.5 billion into rebuilding American air traffic control in 2025. On Tuesday the Transportation Secretary told a Washington audience that the real number is $42.5 billion. Sean Duffy said the administration will ask Congress for another...
Mi-8 Over Braniewo: 42 Seconds Inside Polish Airspace
Share this story Three hundred metres. Forty-two seconds. On a map of Europe it would not register as a line. At 11:08 on Wednesday morning, a Russian Mi-8 helicopter flying out of Kaliningrad crossed the border north of the Polish town of Braniewo, stayed inside...
Turkish Airlines Signs for 150 Boeing 737 MAX After Engine Fight
Share this story A year ago Turkish Airlines said it wanted up to 225 Boeing aircraft. Then the deal stalled, the airline started talking publicly about Airbus instead, and the whole thing looked like it might come apart over engines. On Wednesday it was signed, in...
Nellis A-10 Departure: The Warthog Leaves Fighter Town USA
Share this story Nearly seventy airmen lined the flight line at Nellis Air Force Base on Tuesday morning and saluted an aeroplane. The A-10 Thunderbolt II lifted off into a cloudless Nevada sky, turned out over Las Vegas, and did not come back. That was the last...
Canada’s First F-35 Flies: The Milestone Nobody Announced
Share this story At around noon on Wednesday, a fighter in full Royal Canadian Air Force markings lifted off from Fort Worth, Texas, with an F-35C flying chase. Bilingual RCAF-ARC lettering on the intakes. A roundel. “Canada” behind the cockpit. A...
Recent Comments