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AMCA First Flight Set for 2028: India Names Its Stealth Fighter Deadline

AMCA First Flight Set for 2028: India Names Its Stealth Fighter Deadline

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Share this story India has been talking about its own stealth fighter for well over a decade. Now it has a date. Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh says the first prototype of the Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA) is targeted to fly in September 2028. Speaking...
Air Algérie 5017: Paris Court Convicts Swiftair 12 Years After Crash

Air Algérie 5017: Paris Court Convicts Swiftair 12 Years After Crash

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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...
Pope Leo XIV Blesses Rafale Pilots Escorting His Air France A321

Pope Leo XIV Blesses Rafale Pilots Escorting His Air France A321

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Share this story Most passengers get a window seat and a view of the wing. On Monday morning, 28 September, the passenger in the Air France A321 from Lourdes to Metz got the cockpit, a radio microphone, and two Rafales flying about 50 metres off the nose. Pope Leo XIV...
Turkish Pilots Start Eurofighter Typhoon Training at RAF Coningsby

Turkish Pilots Start Eurofighter Typhoon Training at RAF Coningsby

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Share this story Turkey will not receive its first Eurofighter Typhoon until 2030. Its first Typhoon pilots, however, are already in Lincolnshire. On 27 September, the Royal Air Force announced that two Turkish Air Force pilots have started conversion training with 29...
Boeing 737 MAX 10 Certification on Hold: FAA Waits on Software Fix

Boeing 737 MAX 10 Certification on Hold: FAA Waits on Software Fix

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Share this story Boeing looked close to certifying its biggest 737. Then a software problem got in the way. On Monday, 28 September, FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford said the agency would hold off on certifying the 737 MAX 10 until it understands a newly disclosed...
Iva MANPADS: Mystery Shoulder-Fired Missile Appears in Russian Service

Iva MANPADS: Mystery Shoulder-Fired Missile Appears in Russian Service

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Share this story Russian state television wanted to show viewers how the army protects the skies over Rostov. It ended up showing the world a weapon nobody can quite identify. In a report aired on the Russia-1 channel, soldiers from a mobile fire group of the 51st Air...
Hürkuş-II Enters Turkish Air Force Service: First Two Trainers Delivered

Hürkuş-II Enters Turkish Air Force Service: First Two Trainers Delivered

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Share this story On Monday, 28 September, two Hürkuş trainers flew over the Turkish Aerospace (TUSAŞ) plant at Kahramankazan, outside Ankara. On the ground, officials signed them over to the Turkish Air Force. With that, the Hürkuş-II became the first of a new...
Vietnam Airlines 787 at Munich: BFU Finds Brakes On During Take-Off

Vietnam Airlines 787 at Munich: BFU Finds Brakes On During Take-Off

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Share this story Munich’s runways are 4,000 metres long. On 15 August 2026, a fully loaded Vietnam Airlines Boeing 787-9 used all of it, and then some. Flight VN34 to Hanoi left the ground from the grass beyond the end of the runway, clipped the approach lights...
USS Eisenhower Mishap: Two Navy Aviators Eject During Carrier Landing

USS Eisenhower Mishap: Two Navy Aviators Eject During Carrier Landing

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Share this story At about 6:18 p.m. on Monday, 28 September, something went badly wrong on the flight deck of USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. A jet was coming aboard during recovery operations off the coast of Virginia. Moments later, both of its aviators had ejected....
Inside the Geran-4: RFE/RL Tears Down Russia’s Jet Shahed

Inside the Geran-4: RFE/RL Tears Down Russia’s Jet Shahed

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Share this story Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty has taken a Russian Geran-4 apart on camera, and what spills out of the airframe is less a Russian weapon than a catalogue of global supply chains. The jet-powered successor to the Shahed carries around 55 foreign-made...
Kyauktaw Airstrike: Myanmar Jet Bombs Rakhine Market, Killing at Least 49

Kyauktaw Airstrike: Myanmar Jet Bombs Rakhine Market, Killing at Least 49

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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....
GE Prepares to Build the First XA102, the Adaptive Engine Meant for the F-47

GE Prepares to Build the First XA102, the Adaptive Engine Meant for the F-47

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Share this story GE Aerospace says it is preparing to assemble the first XA102, the adaptive cycle engine it is developing for the US Air Force’s next fighter. In an announcement on 15 September, the company said it is buying hardware from suppliers and testing...
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