American Airlines flies more aircraft than almost anyone on Earth, yet it has quietly backed itself into a corner over the ocean. Its long-haul order book has dwindled to just 19 jets. Now the airline is preparing to fix that — and the most interesting part of the...
Update: This article provides the latest on the investigation into the Lufthansa 787 nose gear collapse at Frankfurt Airport. For our initial coverage, see Brand-New Lufthansa 787 Drops on Its Nose. Germany’s Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation...
For decades, the global fighter market had two aisles: American and Russian. You bought F-16s or you bought MiG-29s. China was a buyer, not a seller — importing Russian engines, Israeli avionics, and Western design philosophy to build aircraft it could not yet export....
On Wednesday evening, a factory-fresh Airbus slipped onto the runway at Tampa International after ten hours over the North Atlantic. No water-cannon salute, no press conference — United and Airbus didn’t even put out a statement. But make no mistake: the...
Somewhere behind the front lines in occupied Ukraine, Russian supply trucks have started looking like escaped zoo animals. Photos that surfaced on social media in early June show Ural and KamAZ heavy trucks painted nose to tail — wheels and tires included...
For nine years, one subfleet of Emirates A380s held a record nobody else wanted: 615 seats, the densest passenger configuration ever flown on a commercial aircraft. Two classes, no frills up top — just row after row of economy stretching across both decks of the...
The MQ-1 Predator was retired by the US Air Force in 2018. Eight years later, Iran just shot down a drone CENTCOM will only identify as an “MQ-1” over the Persian Gulf — quite possibly the Army’s still-serving MQ-1C Gray Eagle rather than a...
For more than five decades, Southwest Airlines grew the way a balloon inflates — relentlessly, in every direction, never quite stopping. Open seating, bags fly free, a single fleet type, and a map that only ever seemed to add dots. Retreat was not in the...
It took the internet roughly ten minutes. On 19 May 2026, the National Transportation Safety Board opened its public docket on the crash of UPS Flight 2976 and, among thousands of pages, included a single PDF: a spectrogram, a visual graph of the sound captured by the...
Editor’s Update (June 2026): Malaysia’s Cabinet officially cancelled the planned purchase of Kuwait’s retired F/A-18C/D Hornets on 6 February 2026. The background analysis below on Malaysia’s fighter gap and the strategic rationale for the deal...
If you want to know what a country is really planning, don’t read the press releases. Look at the parking lots. That’s been the quiet refrain among open-source defence analysts for two years now, as a small army of nerds armed with commercial satellite...
For nearly fifty years it sat in someone’s storage closet — a small, wooden, surprisingly fragile model of an interstellar starship. This week, the Roddenberry Archive gave the public its first detailed look at the original 33-inch prototype of the USS...
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