Barking Creek 1939: The RAF Shot Down Its Own Fighters
Britain had been at war for three days. At quarter past six on the morning of 6 September 1939, a radar station on the Essex coast reported unidentified aircraft approaching at high altitude over West Mersea. There were no German aircraft. The plots were reflections...
Su-34 Production: Russia Has Built 212, Lost at Least 43
At an air festival at Mochishche aerodrome outside Novosibirsk in early August, someone photographed a Su-34 that had not been painted yet. Bare factory grey primer, straight out of the shop next door. It is a mundane picture that answers a question people have been...
La Compagnie Adds Newark to Düsseldorf, All Business Class
There is an airline that flies the Atlantic with no economy cabin at all. No premium economy either. Seventy-six seats, all of them business, all of them lying flat. La Compagnie has been doing this since 2014, mostly out of Paris, and on Monday it announced where it...
Gilmour and Hypersonix: Australia Wants to Sell Mach 5 Tests
Two Queensland companies signed an agreement at Parliament House in Canberra on Monday that, on paper, is unremarkable: a rocket firm and a scramjet firm agreeing to work together. What they are actually proposing is a business almost nobody offers. Not a hypersonic...
Su-57E: Rosoboronexport Says It Has Buyers, Names None
Rosoboronexport says the Su-57 has proven itself in combat, that new export contracts for the Su-57E have been signed, and that deliveries begin this year. It will not say who signed them. Or for how many aircraft. Or for how much. The claim was made by Alexander...
Cessna 172 Crash at Montgomery Field Kills Two in San Diego
A Cessna 172 Skyhawk crashed and burned on a runway at Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport in San Diego on Monday evening. Two people on board were killed. San Diego police logged the crash at about 17:20 local time on 7 September. It was the Labor Day holiday, and...
AMP-HEL: The Army Laser Burning Cartel Drones for $3 a Shot
Since 25 August, a US Army laser has been burning cartel drones out of the sky over the Rio Grande Valley. Eleven of them in ten days. Each shot costs about three dollars. Military officials told CBS News that drone traffic in the sector has since fallen by roughly 75...
Saky: Ukrainian Drone Hits Russian Su-24, Tail Number 49
The video is short, silent and shot from the nose of the drone. A hardened airfield apron slides into frame. Then an aircraft, parked, wings swept forward, with a large white 49 on the intake. Then the picture ends. Ukraine’s Defence Intelligence directorate,...
A350F: Airbus Books Eight More as First Flight Nears
Buried in Airbus’s monthly order tally, published Monday, is a line for eight A350F freighters. The deal was firmed on 31 August. The customer is not named. It takes firm orders for the aircraft to 115, and it lands about two weeks before the A350F is due to fly...
Egypt Takes Its First Five Boeing CH-47F Chinooks
Among all the fifth-generation sales theatre at El Alamein this week, the most consequential thing on the ramp is a helicopter that first flew in 1961. Boeing has handed the Egyptian Air Force the first five of twelve CH-47F Chinooks, with the milestone marked during...
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