Fairey Gordon NZ629: The Last Survivor of an RAF Biplane Bomber
Share this story On 12 April 1940, two young trainee pilots took a Royal New Zealand Air Force biplane up over the Southern Alps for a climb to altitude. Somewhere near Mount White, the Fairey Gordon spun, recovered, and then flew into the trees on a ridge. It flipped...
Austrian Airlines Retires Boeing 767 OE-LAZ: Two 767s Left After 38 Years
Share this story On Tuesday, 13 October 2026, in the hangars of Austrian Airlines’ technical base in Vienna, Boeing 767-300ER OE-LAZ was officially taken out of service. It is the first of the airline’s last three 767s to go, and the beginning of the end...
British Airways BA2660: A321 Turns Back to Gatwick With a Cracked Window
Share this story About an hour after leaving London Gatwick on Tuesday morning, somewhere past Brittany, the crew of British Airways flight BA2660 to Faro turned their Airbus A321 around. A passenger window on the right-hand side of the cabin, near row 3, had been...
Boeing Q3 2026 Deliveries: 161 Jets and a Record Run for the 737 MAX
Share this story Boeing delivered 161 commercial aircraft in the third quarter of 2026, the company announced on 13 October. That is one more than in the same quarter a year earlier, which sounds unexciting until you look at what is inside the number: the most 737 MAX...
Fatah-2 ER: Pakistan Tests a Longer-Range “Hypersonic” Missile
Share this story Pakistan’s Army Rocket Force fired another missile on Tuesday, and this one comes with a word that every defence ministry now likes to use: hypersonic. The military’s media wing, ISPR, announced on 13 October 2026 that the army had...
Amelia Earhart Search: Expedition Lands on Nikumaroro to Inspect the Taraia Object
Share this story At sunrise on Tuesday, 13 October 2026, small boats pushed off from a supply ship and headed into the lagoon of an uninhabited coral atoll in the middle of the Pacific. Their destination: a patch of lagoon floor where a shape in satellite images...
FWD Supreme: India’s AI-Piloted Fighter Shown as a Full-Scale Prototype
Share this story In July, India’s first AI-piloted fighter existed as renderings and a doctrine with a memorable name. On 13 October 2026, it got a body. Bengaluru start-up Flying Wedge Defence & Aerospace (FWDA) wheeled out a full-scale static prototype of...
Cobra Warrior 26-2: RAF Exercise Ends After 942 Sorties
Share this story For three and a half weeks this autumn, Britain’s skies hosted the RAF’s biggest homeland defence exercise. Now the Royal Air Force has published the final tally for Exercise Cobra Warrior 26-2: 942 sorties, more than 2,500 flying hours...
Air India AI2030: 787 Diverted to Jaipur After a Squawk 7500 Alert
Share this story Less than a day after a Corendon Boeing 737 squawked the hijack code over Europe, it happened again, this time over India. On the morning of Wednesday, 14 October 2026, Air India flight AI2030 from Frankfurt to Delhi transmitted squawk 7500, the...
Ukraine’s F-16s and Mirages Now Outnumber Its Soviet Fighters
Share this story For more than three decades, the backbone of Ukraine’s fighter force was Soviet: MiG-29s and Su-27s, designed in Moscow and maintained with whatever spares could be scrounged after 1991. That era has quietly ended. According to an assessment...
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