Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571: 72 Days in the Andes
Share this story Fifty-four years ago today, a twin-turboprop of the Uruguayan Air Force took off from Mendoza in Argentina with 45 people on board, bound across the Andes for Santiago. Many of them were young men from the Old Christians Club rugby team of Montevideo,...
Richard Heyser’s U-2 Flight That Started the Cuban Missile Crisis
Share this story At dawn on Sunday, 14 October 1962, a single grey reconnaissance jet crossed the Yucatán Channel at 72,500 feet and turned north towards western Cuba. Its pilot was Major Richard S. Heyser of the US Air Force. He was flying so high that he left no...
Oman Air 787-9 Grounded at Malpensa After Ramp Damage
Share this story The most expensive moment in an airliner’s day is often not in the air. It is on the ramp, when trucks, tugs, belt loaders and catering lifts crowd around a parked aircraft with minutes to spare. On the evening of Sunday, 11 October, that moment...
Delta Delays Riyadh Flights to 2027 After Airport Attacks
Share this story Delta Air Lines was eleven days away from its first ever flight to Saudi Arabia. It is now five months away. On Monday, 12 October, Delta said it would delay the planned launch of nonstop service between Atlanta and Riyadh, which had been due to start...
Anduril Steelfin: A Cheaper Missile Interceptor to Rival PAC-3
Share this story Anduril has never built a surface-to-air missile. On Monday it announced a whole family of them. Steelfin, unveiled on 12 October as the US Army’s AUSA conference opened in Washington, is a two-stage interceptor designed to shoot down cruise...
Superjet 100 Service Life Extended to 20 Years by Rosaviatsia
Share this story Russia’s most numerous home-built jet airliner has just been granted five extra years of life. On 12 October, Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency, Rosaviatsia, approved an increase in the permitted service life of the Superjet 100 from...
Army Balloon Swarms: Dozens Flew for CENTCOM in the Middle East
Share this story The US Army had planned to fill the sky over the Pacific with more than a hundred high-altitude balloons this year, the biggest balloon swarm experiment it had ever tried. It never happened. The balloons went to the Middle East instead, and they went...
Coyote Block 2C+RM: Raytheon’s Rocket-Powered Drone Killer
Share this story The Coyote is the US Army’s go-to drone killer, and according to Raytheon it has more than 600 combat kills to show for it. On Monday the company revealed what comes next, and it has no jet engine. The new Coyote Block 2C+RM, unveiled on 12...
United 767 Engine Shutdown: UA946 Diverts to St. John’s
Share this story Four hours out of Washington, somewhere over the dark North Atlantic, the crew of United Airlines flight UA946 got the message no twin-jet pilot wants: a problem with one of their two engines. They declared an emergency, turned the Boeing 767 around,...
Sikorsky Nomad 100 Fast Pack: Four Drones in a Shipping Container
Share this story The US Army spent Monday at its biggest trade show of the year, and Sikorsky brought a shipping container. Inside it are four drones. The Nomad 100 Fast Pack, unveiled on 12 October at the Association of the US Army annual meeting in Washington, is a...
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