Share this story Thomas McGuire wrote the rule himself. Never take a P-38 into a turning fight at low altitude. He put it in a manual the Fifth Air Force distributed to its pilots. On 7 January 1945, at three hundred feet over Negros Island, he broke it deliberately,...
Share this story Britain had been at war for three days. At quarter past six on the morning of 6 September 1939, a radar station on the Essex coast reported unidentified aircraft approaching at high altitude over West Mersea. There were no German aircraft. The plots...
Share this story The video is short, silent and shot from the nose of the drone. A hardened airfield apron slides into frame. Then an aircraft, parked, wings swept forward, with a large white 49 on the intake. Then the picture ends. Ukraine’s Defence...
Share this story A US Air Force casualty assistance officer told the widow of a major killed in a KC-135 crash that certain combat-related benefits were not available to her family, because — in his words — the United States has not declared war. That is...
Share this story On a Tuesday evening in September 1909, in the hills behind Piedmont, California, a Chinese machinist took off in a biplane he had designed, built and powered with an engine he had also built, and flew an elliptical circuit around a hilltop for about...
Share this story She had held a pilot’s licence for thirteen months and had forty hours of flying in her logbook, total. The aeroplane was a wood-and-fabric trainer with an eighty-horsepower rotary engine and a service ceiling of about 4,300 metres. Aconcagua,...
Share this story Somewhere between Bangkok and Hong Kong, at nine thousand feet off the coast of Hainan, the co-pilot of a Cathay Pacific airliner called for blankets. Two fighters were shooting at them. Cedric Carlton had the surviving passengers hang the blankets...
Share this story On 12 September 1958, the Soviet Union told the United States that it had found the wreck of an American aeroplane in Armenia, and that from the remains discovered there it might be assumed that six crewmen had perished. Seventeen men had been on...
Share this story DL234 pushed back from JFK Terminal 4 on Sunday afternoon and landed at Ben Gurion on Monday morning. An Airbus A330-900neo, 281 seats, ten and three quarter hours eastbound. It is an entirely ordinary flight, and it had not operated since 28...
Share this story At 23:07 on Friday night, local time, Anak Krakatau started throwing lava into the sky and did not stop for twenty-five hours. People heard the booming 700 kilometres away. By Sunday morning the biggest airport in Southeast Asia’s fourth-largest...
Share this story For four years Ukraine has fought an air war essentially blind above a certain altitude, relying on ground-based radar that cannot see over the horizon and cannot move quickly when it is targeted. On 5 September the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence...
Share this story Claims about strikes deep inside Russia are cheap. Verification is not. This week the satellites caught up with two of them, and the pictures are unusually specific about what Ukrainian drones actually hit. At Millerovo air base in Rostov Oblast,...
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