Golden Hawks: Canada’s Gold Sabre Display Team Before the Snowbirds
Share this story Long before the red-and-white Tutors of the Snowbirds, Canada had a jet team that glowed in the sun. In 1959 the Royal Canadian Air Force painted a group of Canadair Sabres gold, trimmed them in red and white, and sent them across North America as the...
Snowbirds Fly Their Last Tutor Home Show at Moose Jaw Today
Share this story At noon Moose Jaw time today, Friday 16 October, nine red-and-white jets will taxi out at 15 Wing Moose Jaw for a show that has no paying crowd and no grandstand. It is the last “home closer” the Snowbirds will ever fly in the CT-114...
SR-71 Inlet Spike Explained: How the Blackbird Tamed Shock Waves at Mach 3
Share this story Look at an SR-71 head-on and the most striking thing is the pair of sharp cones in the front of its engine nacelles. They are not decoration. At Mach 3 those spikes, and the doors and ducts behind them, did a job no jet engine of the time could do on...
Johannes Steinhoff: From a Burning Me 262 to the Head of NATO’s Military Committee
Share this story On 18 April 1945, three weeks before the war in Europe ended, a Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighter of Jagdverband 44 was taking off near Munich when its left wheel hit debris. The jet swerved off the runway and exploded in flames. Its pilot, Colonel...
Israel Signs for 12 AH-64E Apache Helicopters After a Budget Scare
Share this story Six days after it missed Washington’s final deadline, Israel has signed for new attack helicopters after all. On 14 October 2026 the Israeli Ministry of Defense said it had signed an agreement with the US Department of War to buy 12 Boeing...
Houthis Claim a Missile Hit on a Saudi Eurofighter Typhoon Over Saada
Share this story Late on 14 October, the Houthi movement’s military spokesman, Brigadier General Yahya Saree, made a claim that will be pored over in air force headquarters from Riyadh to Rome. He said Houthi forces had fired a surface-to-air missile at a Royal...
Austrian Airlines Retires Boeing 767 OE-LAZ: Two 767s Left After 38 Years
Share this story On Tuesday, 13 October 2026, in the hangars of Austrian Airlines’ technical base in Vienna, Boeing 767-300ER OE-LAZ was officially taken out of service. It is the first of the airline’s last three 767s to go, and the beginning of the end...
Amelia Earhart Search: Expedition Lands on Nikumaroro to Inspect the Taraia Object
Share this story At sunrise on Tuesday, 13 October 2026, small boats pushed off from a supply ship and headed into the lagoon of an uninhabited coral atoll in the middle of the Pacific. Their destination: a patch of lagoon floor where a shape in satellite images...
Ukraine’s F-16s and Mirages Now Outnumber Its Soviet Fighters
Share this story For more than three decades, the backbone of Ukraine’s fighter force was Soviet: MiG-29s and Su-27s, designed in Moscow and maintained with whatever spares could be scrounged after 1991. That era has quietly ended. According to an assessment...
Stargazer: The Last Flying L-1011 TriStar Still Launches Rockets
Share this story Most TriStars were scrapped long ago. One is still working. Stargazer, a 52-year-old Lockheed L-1011 that began life carrying Air Canada passengers, now carries a rocket under its belly, climbs to about 40,000 feet and lets it go. In July 2026 it did...
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