RAF Pathfinders: The Squadrons That Lit the Target
In August 1941 a civil servant named David Bensusan-Butt was given 633 night photographs taken by RAF bombers over occupied Europe and asked a simple question: are they hitting anything? His answer broke Bomber Command. Of the aircraft whose crews reported attacking...
Yahodyn Train Strike: Russia’s Jet Drones Reach the EU Border
A Russian jet-powered drone struck the engine of a train at Yahodyn on Monday morning, about two kilometres from the Polish border. Nobody was killed. The passengers had been ordered off fifteen minutes earlier, which is now a routine Ukrainian railway procedure and...
Trump Tells Ukraine to Stop Hitting Russian Refineries
Ukraine spent two years building the one capability that reaches deep into Russia and actually hurts. On Sunday, the President of the United States asked it to stop using that capability on the target it works best against. Speaking to reporters at his Doonbeg golf...
Dude 44 Bravo: The F-15E Backseater Breaks His Silence on Iran
For five months the United States Air Force has said almost nothing about the man it went back for. He has no name in the public record. He has a call sign, and that is deliberate: Dude 44 Bravo, the weapons systems officer of an F-15E Strike Eagle that came apart...
Fokker F28: Canada Scrapped 12, Three Escaped the Shredder
Fifteen jet airliners sat on the apron at Saskatoon for close to two decades, going quietly to pieces in Saskatchewan winters. They were Fokker F28 Fellowships, and they had once belonged to Canadian Regional Airlines. As of this week they are gone. aeroTELEGRAPH...
9/11 F-16s: Three Jets That Defended Washington Are Saved
On the morning of 11 September 2001, four pilots of the District of Columbia Air National Guard ran to their F-16s at Andrews without waiting for live weapons to be loaded. One of them, Lt. Heather Penney, had never scrambled an aircraft before. She had never even...
Seat 11A, Jeans and Brace Position: Three Cabin Safety Myths
On 12 June 2025, an Air India Boeing 787-8 came down within a minute of leaving Ahmedabad. Of the 242 people on board, one walked away: Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, a 40-year-old British national, who had been sitting in seat 11A. People on the ground were killed too....
Flying Tiger 739: 107 People Vanished Over the Pacific
Ninety-three young American soldiers, three South Vietnamese servicemen and eleven civilian crew boarded a Super Constellation at Travis Air Force Base in March 1962 and flew west. Somewhere between Guam and the Philippines, the aeroplane stopped existing. Not a seat...
The Afghan Air Force Five Years After the Taliban
Five years after the Taliban walked into Kabul, one of the odder questions in military aviation is still unanswered: what is actually left of the air force the United States spent two decades and billions of dollars building? The honest answer is that nobody outside...
Algeria Closes Its Airspace to UAE Aircraft
At midnight on 11 September 2026, Algeria closed its airspace to every civilian and military aircraft registered in the United Arab Emirates. It is the kind of announcement that sounds enormous and, in commercial terms, changes almost nothing. The UAE carrier that...
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