American Flew a Jet on Fuel Made From Waste CO2

American Flew a Jet on Fuel Made From Waste CO2

Share this story A short domestic hop between Corpus Christi and Dallas/Fort Worth is about as routine as flying gets. But one American Airlines flight this month quietly made history — it was the first commercial passenger service in the United States powered...
A Power Bank Diverted This SWISS Atlantic Flight

A Power Bank Diverted This SWISS Atlantic Flight

Share this story Somewhere over the North Atlantic on Sunday evening, a small object in a business-class seat pocket did what airlines now fear more than almost anything else: it began to smoke. The device was a passenger’s power bank. The aircraft was a SWISS...
Ukraine Hits Russia’s Deepest Refinery Yet

Ukraine Hits Russia’s Deepest Refinery Yet

Share this story Just after dawn on Monday, air-raid sirens and the buzz of engines reached a city most of the war had never touched. Nizhnekamsk sits roughly 1,200 kilometres (750 miles) from the nearest Ukrainian-held ground, deep in the Russian republic of...
France Lost Germany. It May Have Found India.

France Lost Germany. It May Have Found India.

Share this story Europe’s most ambitious fighter project spent years tearing itself apart. Now, from the wreckage, an unexpected suitor has stepped forward: India.On 7 August 2026, India’s Ministry of Defence confirmed to Parliament that New Delhi has...
Twenty-One Days to Rebuild the Arsenal

Twenty-One Days to Rebuild the Arsenal

Share this story Wars are not won only by the jets on the ramp. They are won by the factories behind them, and by whether those factories can build missiles faster than a shooting war can burn through them. This week the Pentagon admitted, in writing, that America is...
The Cessna That Found an F-16 on Its Wing

The Cessna That Found an F-16 on Its Wing

Share this story It is the kind of thing a weekend pilot never expects to see filling the windscreen: the grey nose of an F-16 Fighting Falcon sliding into formation a few wingspans away, wings heavy with missiles. On Sunday, at least one general-aviation pilot over...
352,715 Passengers in a Single Sunday

352,715 Passengers in a Single Sunday

Share this story Airlines love a big number. Turkish Airlines just posted one that is hard to argue with: on Sunday, 2 August 2026, the group flew 352,715 passengers in a single day — the busiest day in its 93-year history. That figure is not one airline but two...
An F-35, a MiG-17, and a Faked Pearl Harbor

An F-35, a MiG-17, and a Faked Pearl Harbor

Share this story For two days this weekend, the flattest stretch of Nebraska turns into the loudest. Offutt Air Force Base throws open its gates on 8 and 9 August for the 2026 Defenders of Freedom Air & Space Show, and the headline act is the one everyone came to...