C-130 60528: The Spy Plane the Soviets Denied Shooting Down
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...
Delta Resumes JFK-Tel Aviv After a Six-Month War Gap
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...
Anak Krakatau Eruption Closes Eight Indonesian Airports
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...
Ukraine Confirms Its Swedish ASC 890 Radar Plane Is Flying Combat
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...
Satellite Images Confirm Drone Damage at Millerovo and Sochi
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,...
Russian Drone Hits SBU Headquarters: Kyiv Spy Chief’s Office Targeted
Share this story At about half past three on Friday afternoon, a Russian drone came down on a grey neoclassical block at 33 Volodymyrska Street in central Kyiv, directly across the road from St Sophia Cathedral. The building is the headquarters of the Security Service...
Marina Raskova and the Rodina: Ten Days Alone in the Taiga
Share this story At about seven thousand five hundred feet over the swamp forests of the Soviet Far East, a young woman clipped on a parachute, opened a hatch in the glazed nose of a bomber, and jumped out into freezing air because the alternative was to be crushed...
ICAO Warns 193 States: Airliners Are Being Targeted Again
Share this story A modern airliner cruising at 38,000 feet is, from the point of view of a surface-to-air missile battery, a large, slow, predictable radar return. Everything that keeps it safe is procedural: the crew knows where not to fly, and the people with the...
Nikolai Varpakhovich: Russian Bomber General Shot Near Engels
Share this story At around seven in the morning on Thursday 3 September 2026, in the village of Probuzhdeniye on the edge of Engels in Russia’s Saratov region, a man on a motorcycle with his face hidden by a helmet fired two pistol shots at a serviceman, then...
Pancho Barnes: The Aviator Who Ran the Test Pilots’ Saloon
Share this story If you broke the sound barrier, you ate free. That was the standing offer at a bar in the Mojave desert run by a woman who had once held the women’s world air speed record, flown stunts for Howard Hughes, and crossed Mexico on a burro dressed as...
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