Faster Aircraft Certification: Duffy Warns ‘China Is Going to Beat Us’
Share this story America’s transport secretary has a new worry, and it is not a crash. It is a calendar. Speaking in Washington on 30 September, Sean Duffy said the United States must certify new airliners faster or risk losing the next generation of aviation to...
AnimaWings Files for Insolvency After Grounding All Six A220s
Share this story On Tuesday, AnimaWings pulled six of its eight aircraft out of service. On Wednesday, it went to court. The Romanian airline filed for insolvency with the Bucharest Tribunal on 30 September 2026, one day after grounding its entire fleet of Airbus...
EASA Warns Airlines Off Part of Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah FIR
Share this story On 30 September 2026 the European Union Aviation Safety Agency published a two-page document that will quietly rearrange a lot of flight plans. It is called CZIB-2026-09, its subject line is simply Airspace of Saudi Arabia, and it tells European...
WestJet Starts Retiring the Boeing 737-700: 27 Jets Go to FTAI
Share this story WestJet was built on the Boeing 737-700. On 28 September 2026 it started getting rid of them, and it did so in the same week the aeroplane meant to replace them lost its certification date. The mechanism is an agreement with FTAI Aviation covering 27...
K2 Airways 1732: Pakistan Navy Locates Black Box at 3,200 Metres
Share this story Three point two kilometres of water sit on top of the only object that can explain what happened to K2 Airways Flight 1732. The Pakistan Navy says it has found it. The announcement came on 29 and 30 September 2026, almost three months after the Boeing...
Ethiopian Airlines Orders Ten Boeing Freighters, Eight of Them 777-8Fs
Share this story Eight of the ten aeroplanes Ethiopian Airlines just bought do not exist yet. That is the interesting part. On 30 September 2026 Boeing and Ethiopian Airlines announced an order for ten freighters: two 777Fs, the twin-engine workhorse that has hauled...
Stratolaunch Buys a Boeing 777 to Air-Launch Talon-A Hypersonics
Share this story Somewhere in the second-hand widebody market, a Boeing 777-200ER that spent its career hauling passengers between Auckland and the rest of the world has just been bought by a hypersonics company. It is going to Mojave. It is going to have a hypersonic...
Cost Index: The Number That Decides How Fast Your Flight Flies
Share this story Somewhere in the twenty minutes before your flight pushed back, one of the pilots typed a number into a keypad on the centre console. It was probably two or three digits. It took about four seconds. That number decided how fast you are about to fly,...
SBX-1, Cobra Dane and PAVE PAWS: The Biggest Radars Ever Built
Share this story The largest radar ever built does not sit on a mountain. It floats. Six diesel generators, two hulls, a crew of somewhere between 48 and 86 depending on which part of the US government you ask, and on top of it a white sphere 36.5 metres (120 ft)...
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...
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