WestJet Grounds Its Entire Mainline Fleet
Just after midnight on Sunday, the busiest travel weekend of the Canadian summer fell silent. Roughly 150 WestJet aircraft that should have been shuttling holidaymakers between Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto and a long list of sun destinations stayed exactly where they...
Japan Just Joined the Tomahawk Club
For decades Japan built warships bristling with missile cells and used them only to shoot things down. That just changed. On Jul. 29, 2026, the destroyer JS Chōkai fired a Tomahawk cruise missile into the Pacific — the first time a Japanese warship has ever...
Lasers Arrive in Europe to Kill Drones
The cheapest weapon on a modern battlefield is a drone you can buy online. The U.S. Air Force has just answered it in Europe with one of the most futuristic: a laser. Quietly, and at locations it will not name, U.S. Air Forces in Europe has fielded the Compact Laser...
Marine F-35B Goes Down at Miramar
Black smoke over San Diego is never a good sign. On Friday morning, it meant a stealth fighter was down. A U.S. Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II crashed in the vicinity of Marine Corps Air Station Miramar shortly before 10 a.m. Pacific time, sending a column of black...
A Passenger Landed the Plane After His Pilot Died
Doug White was having the worst week of his life. He, his wife Terri and their two daughters were flying home to Louisiana from Florida, where they had just buried his brother. It was Easter Sunday, 2009. White, a 56-year-old private pilot who had only ever flown...
America’s First Fighter Drones Roll Off the Line
A month ago, the U.S. Air Force cleared its first two “fighter drones” for production. This week, the factories actually started building them — and one of them dropped a letter from its name.On 27 July 2026, the first Ohio-built Fury rolled off...
A US Drone Triggered a Korean Border Scare
At about 2:30 in the afternoon on 30 July 2026, sensors along South Korea’s border with the North picked up something they couldn’t identify: an unmanned aircraft, near a frontline outpost, not squawking anything friendly. In the most heavily militarised...
South Korea Finishes Building Its Own Fighter
On 29 July 2026, at Korea Aerospace Industries’ plant in Sacheon, South Korea did something only a handful of nations have ever managed: it declared its own supersonic fighter finished. The KF-21 Boramae — “young hawk” — is officially through...
A Falcon 50 Picks the Worst Place to Get Stuck
Here is an aviation rarity: an incident where the scary part — a mechanical warning in flight — ended fine, and the embarrassing part happened on the ground, at walking pace.On the evening of 28 July 2026, a Dassault Falcon 50 three-engine business jet...
Japan Scrambles Over the East China Sea
On 29 July 2026, Japan launched fighter jets over the East China Sea after picking up a suspected airspace violation. Then the Ministry of Defense did what it usually does with these events: said almost nothing.No aircraft type was named. No confirmation of whether...
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