Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante: The Turboprop That Built Embraer
Share this story At 7:07 on the morning of 22 October 1968, a small twin-turboprop painted in Brazilian Air Force colours rolled out of hangar X10 at the Aerospace Technical Center in São José dos Campos and took off from an unpaved runway. Major...
Lufthansa A350 Patriots Flight Misses Its Red Carpet in Munich
Share this story The stairs were in place, the red carpet was rolled out, a brass band was ready and 20 hand-picked fans stood behind the barriers. Then the Lufthansa Airbus A350 carrying the New England Patriots rolled straight past the spot where it was supposed to...
KF-21 Parts Deal: KAI and PTDI Expand Ties in Jakarta
Share this story Indonesia may have walked away from building whole KF-21 Boramae fighters, but it has not walked away from the jet. On Wednesday 11 November 2026, in a ministry building in central Jakarta, Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) and Indonesia’s state...
Mitsubishi G4M Betty: Japan’s Long-Range “Flying Lighter”
Share this story On 11 December 1941, a Japanese navy pilot named Haruki Iki flew his bomber back over an empty patch of the South China Sea off Malaya. The day before, he had helped sink the British battlecruiser HMS Repulse there. Now he dropped a wreath into the...
Lithuania Drone: NATO Fighters Fire Twice and Miss
Share this story Shortly after midnight on Wednesday 11 November, phones across central and northern Lithuania lit up with red alerts telling residents to take shelter. A drone had crossed the border from Belarus and was flying north across the country. NATO fighters...
KF-21 Boramae: South Korea’s Top General Flies the New Fighter
Share this story Most generals inspect a new fighter from the flight line. On Wednesday 11 November, South Korea’s most senior military officer climbed into one instead. Gen. Jin Yong-sung, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, flew aboard a KF-21 Boramae over...
Mexico’s Fighter Race: F-16, Gripen, FA-50 or M-346?
Share this story Mexico has not bought a new fighter in more than four decades. The Mexican Air Force’s front line is still its Northrop F-5E/F Tiger IIs, bought in 1982. In 2026 that started to change. The air force has a plan for around 12 new combat aircraft...
PZL.37 Łoś: Poland’s Modern Bomber of September 1939
Share this story On the last day of August 1939, the crews of four Polish bomber escadrilles flew their aircraft out of Warsaw’s Okęcie airfield and scattered them across improvised fields near Dęblin. The machines they dispersed were PZL.37...
Bristol Beaufort: The Torpedo Bomber That Hit the Gneisenau
Share this story It was still dark at St Eval in Cornwall when Flying Officer Kenneth Campbell lifted his Bristol Beaufort off a waterlogged airfield on 6 April 1941. Under the fuselage hung a single torpedo. Ahead, across the Channel, lay Brest, the German...
Ukraine’s First Gripens: Zelenskyy Expects Jets by February
Share this story Copenhagen, a Tuesday in November. Volodymyr Zelenskyy had spent the day in talks with Danish and Nordic leaders about air defence, and when journalists asked the question Ukrainians have been asking for more than a year, he finally gave them a month....
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