FedEx Panda Express: A 777F Flies Two Giant Pandas to Atlanta
Share this story The cargo manifest was short. Two giant pandas, some fresh bamboo, water, a few favourite treats and their keepers from Zoo Atlanta. That was the entire load on a FedEx Boeing 777F that took off from Chengdu in the small hours of Sunday 27 September...
Spy Planes on Flightradar24: How ADS-B Tracking Exposes the RC-135
Share this story Open a flight-tracking app on almost any day and look at the Black Sea or the Baltic. Among the airliners you will often find something that does not belong: a four-engined jet flying long racetrack patterns off a coastline, or a drone orbiting at...
Hindenburg Disaster 1937: The 32 Seconds That Ended the Airship Age
Share this story Thunderstorms had kept the Hindenburg circling for hours. When the giant airship finally turned in towards the mooring mast at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, on the evening of 6 May 1937, reporters, photographers and newsreel crews were...
Pilot Mental Health: Senate Passes the Hauser Aviation Act and Medication Bill
Share this story For decades pilots have passed a quiet piece of advice down the line: if you are struggling, do not tell the doctor. Admitting depression or anxiety could mean months on the ground, a special-issuance process that can drag past a year, and for some,...
Chichijima 1944: The Raid George H.W. Bush Survived and Eight Airmen Did Not
Share this story On 2 September 1944, a 20-year-old US Navy pilot named George Herbert Walker Bush flew his TBM Avenger into the flak over Chichijima, a small Japanese-held island in the Bonin chain north of Iwo Jima. His target was the island’s radio station....
Pave Hawk Retires: The HH-60G’s Last Flight After 44 Years
Share this story On 10 September 2026, a grey helicopter with tail number 27045 landed at Moffett Air National Guard Base in California for the last time. It was the final operational HH-60G Pave Hawk in the US Air Force, and with it ended more than four decades of...
Nicole Malachowski: The First Woman to Fly With the Thunderbirds
Share this story Nicole Malachowski was five years old when she watched military jets at an air show and decided that was what she would do with her life. It was a perfectly reasonable ambition, except for one detail nobody mentioned to her at the time. The United...
Lima Site 85: The Secret Radar the US Lost on a Mountain in Laos
Share this story On the night of 10 March 1968, nineteen American airmen were living on top of a mountain in a country where, officially, there were no American troops at all. Phou Pha Thi rises more than a mile above northeastern Laos, with sheer cliffs on one side....
Latvia to Buy Anduril Barracuda Cruise Missiles for Long-Range Strike
Share this story Latvia wants to hit targets far beyond its borders, and it has picked the weapon. On 25 September, President Edgars Rinkēvičs visited Anduril Industries in California, met founder Palmer Luckey, and said he was looking forward to completing the...
Houthi Missiles Target Khamis Mushait, Home of Saudi Arabia’s F-15s
Share this story Early on Saturday 26 September, two Houthi ballistic missiles were fired at Khamis Mushait, a city high in the mountains of south-western Saudi Arabia. Both were shot down, according to the Saudi-led coalition. At the same time, two Houthi drones were...
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