flydubai FZ1073: What Is Known About the Co-Pilot, and What Is Not
Share this story Within nine hours of flydubai FZ1073 landing at Tabuk, an Israeli cabinet minister had called it a jihadist terror attack, a finance minister had said the perpetrator should pay as though he had murdered, and the airline flying the aircraft had asked...
China Opens Air Force Training Centre in Laos at Ban Keun Airport
Share this story China has very few military footholds abroad, and on 29 September 2026 it quietly added one more. Beijing’s Ministry of National Defence announced that a China-Laos Joint Support and Training Center and a China-Laos Friendship Aviation Academy...
Belgium to Give Ukraine Three F-16s by the End of 2026
Share this story Belgium promised Ukraine fighter jets more than two years ago. On 29 September 2026, Volodymyr Zelensky finally put a number and a date on the first of them: three Belgian F-16 Fighting Falcons, to be handed over before the end of this year. Zelensky...
Boeing Wins F/A-XX: The Navy’s Sixth-Generation Fighter Goes to St. Louis
Share this story The US Navy has picked Boeing to build its next carrier fighter. On Tuesday 29 September 2026, the Pentagon announced that Boeing had won the F/A-XX competition against Northrop Grumman, with a full-scale development contract valued at more than $20...
Vecihi Hürkuş: The Pilot Who Built Turkey’s First Aircraft
Share this story On 28 January 1925, a young Turkish pilot climbed into a small biplane he had designed and built himself, took off, flew for fifteen minutes and landed. It was the first flight ever made by an aircraft built in Turkey. Later that same day, he learned...
How the Pope Flies: Papal Planes, Shepherd One and Fighter Escorts
Share this story The President of the United States has Air Force One. The Pope, head of a state of less than half a square kilometre, has no air force, no airline and no airport. Yet he flies more than most heads of state, and when two French Rafales formed up on his...
Visual Identification: Why Fighter Pilots Needed Eyes on the Target
Share this story Modern fighters carry missiles that can hit a target they will never see. Radar finds it, a data link tracks it, and a missile covers the last 50 or 100 kilometres on its own. Yet for most of the jet age, one of the most important rules in air combat...
Air Algérie 5017: Paris Court Convicts Swiftair 12 Years After Crash
Share this story Twelve years after Air Algérie flight 5017 fell out of the sky over northern Mali, a French court has named someone responsible. On 28 September 2026, the Paris Criminal Court found Spanish charter airline Swiftair guilty of involuntary manslaughter...
Kyauktaw Airstrike: Myanmar Jet Bombs Rakhine Market, Killing at Least 49
Share this story A single fighter jet, two bombs, and the busiest place in town at the busiest time of day. Around noon on Monday 28 September 2026, a Myanmar military jet struck near the main wholesale market in Kyauktaw, in the country’s western Rakhine State....
Nancy Harkness Love: The Pilot Who Founded the WAFS
Share this story In early 1942, a woman in Washington, D.C. commuted to her office in Baltimore every day in her own aeroplane. Her husband mentioned it to his boss, Colonel William H. Tunner, who was scouring the country for pilots to deliver new aircraft from...
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