Skytrax 2026: Singapore Airlines Takes a Sixth World’s Best
Share this story On Friday evening at the Langham Hotel in London, Singapore Airlines was named the World’s Best Airline for the sixth time in the history of the Skytrax World Airline Awards. Qatar Airways, last year’s winner and a nine-time holder of the...
Black Hawk Contract: 16 More UH-60Ms Keep Stratford Running
Share this story The Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk first flew in 1974. The company has been building them for the US Army since 1978. On Friday, Connecticut’s congressional delegation announced that the line at Stratford will keep running for another two years at...
Changi East: Singapore Opens a Runway Built for Fighters
Share this story At midnight on Friday, Singapore’s airfield map changed. A 3,660-metre runway that had been quietly under construction on the eastern edge of Changi became operational, and it belongs to the air force. Runway 03/21 at Changi Air Base (East) went...
Pikes Peak Airshow: Flying the F-35A Demo at 6,200 Feet
Share this story Every airshow demonstration you have ever watched was flown to a script written at sea level and then adjusted. At Colorado Springs this weekend, the adjustment is large. The Pikes Peak Regional Airshow is running today, the second of two days at...
Embraer Praetor 600E: Flexjet Takes the First Smart Window Jet
Share this story Business jets do not usually change much. A new variant means a bit more range, a quieter cabin, a fresh avionics load. The aeroplane that Flexjet accepted on 18 September 2026 has something genuinely new in it: a 42-inch curved 4K OLED screen built...
NAS Oceana Air Show: The Blue Angels Close Their 80th Year
Share this story At three o’clock this afternoon, six blue and gold Super Hornets will taxi out at Naval Air Station Oceana and close an air show that roughly 300,000 people are expected to attend across the weekend. It is the second of two performances, and it...
Silver Wotan: Germany and Sweden Rehearse the Fight for Gotland
Share this story Gotland is a long, low slab of limestone sitting almost exactly in the middle of the Baltic Sea. It has a few tens of thousands of residents, a walled medieval town at Visby, and a strategic value out of all proportion to either. This week, Germany...
National Championship Air Races: The Unlimiteds Return at Roswell
Share this story Somewhere over the New Mexico desert this afternoon, a heavily modified Second World War fighter will round a fifty-foot pylon at something north of 450 mph, about as close to the ground as a sensible person parks a car. Today is the closing day of...
King Khalid Airport: Houthi Missiles Reach Riyadh for the First Time
Share this story Shortly before three in the morning, phones across the Saudi capital lit up with a sentence nobody wants to read: the area is under a hostile aerial threat. Residents were told to stay indoors. AFP journalists in Riyadh then heard two explosions....
Camp David Intercept: NORAD F-16 Fires Flares at a Light Aircraft
Share this story At 7:50 on a Saturday morning, somebody in a small aeroplane over the Catoctin Mountains looked out of the window and found an F-16 Fighting Falcon sitting off the wing, throwing burning decoy flares into the sky. That is not a metaphor. On 19...
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