American Warns Fuel Costs Will Force Flight Cuts
Airlines are not short of passengers. They are short of cheap fuel, and the first thing that breaks is the flight that was only ever marginally worth operating. At the Morgan Stanley Laguna Conference on 16 September, American Airlines chief executive Robert Isom told...
Space Force Plans to More Than Double Its Guardians by 2031
The US Space Force is the smallest armed service the United States has ever fielded. It is now planning to more than double, and the number it has quietly put on that ambition is bigger than the word “double” suggests. At the Air & Space Forces...
Mojave STOL Lands on a Korean Tank Trail Mid-Mission
A medium-altitude, long-endurance drone landed on a dirt track that tanks drive down, in the middle of a live-fire range, while a simulated battle was going on around it. Then it took off again and carried on with the mission. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems and...
Rostov Airfield Strike: Ukraine Claims Six Russian Aircraft
Ukraine says it destroyed six Russian aircraft in one night, on the ground, at an airfield 160 kilometres from the front line. If the claim holds, it is among the heaviest single-night losses Russia has taken at one air base since the invasion began. The target was...
Lufthansa Orders 20 Boeing 737 MAX 10 to Replace Airbus Jets
Lufthansa has spent forty years as one of the most reliably Airbus-shaped airlines in Europe. On Wednesday evening its supervisory board signed off on twenty more Boeings — and specifically on the biggest 737 ever built. The Lufthansa Group is exercising options for...
F-16 Crash in Michigan: Texas Guard Pilot Ejects Safely
The first sign that something had gone wrong over northern Michigan was a voice on a radio frequency, telling Minneapolis Center that the other jet was about to be abandoned. Two F-16 Fighting Falcons were working a low-level training route on Thursday afternoon, 17...
F-16 Crash in Michigan: Texas Guard Pilot Ejects on Training Sortie
An F-16 Fighting Falcon belonging to the 149th Fighter Wing of the Texas Air National Guard came down in rural northern Michigan on Thursday afternoon. The pilot ejected and was recovered alive. That last sentence is the story. Everything else is detail. Quick...
C-40 Fleet: The Air Force Buys Its First Boeing 737 MAX
The Boeing 737 MAX spent almost two years grounded worldwide after two crashes killed everybody on board both aircraft. Its reputation has never entirely recovered, whatever the safety record since. The United States Air Force is going to buy one, and put senior...
One Fighter Pilot in Congress: August Pfluger Wants Wingmen
There are 96 military veterans in the United States Congress. Forty-five served in the Army, twenty-four in the Navy, twelve in the Marine Corps and fifteen in the Air Force. Of those fifteen, exactly one flew fighters. Rep. August Pfluger of Texas flew the F-15 and...
Cargo Drones: The Air Force Is Shopping Without a Programme
Every December, C-130Js from Yokota fly to Guam and spend a fortnight pushing bundles out of the back over the Federated States of Micronesia. Operation Christmas Drop has run for seventy-four years and reaches sixty islands. It is charming, and it is also a...
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