Marine F-35B Goes Down at Miramar

Marine F-35B Goes Down at Miramar

Share this story Black smoke over San Diego is never a good sign. On Friday morning, it meant a stealth fighter was down. A U.S. Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II crashed in the vicinity of Marine Corps Air Station Miramar shortly before 10 a.m. Pacific time, sending a...
Iran Warns Bulgaria Over US Tanker Base

Iran Warns Bulgaria Over US Tanker Base

Share this story A modest airbase in southeastern Bulgaria has become the newest point of friction between Tehran and the West — and the cause is not a bomber or a stealth fighter, but a fleet of ageing flying petrol stations.In late July 2026, Bulgaria’s...
Air France-KLM and Lufthansa Fight Over TAP

Air France-KLM and Lufthansa Fight Over TAP

Share this story Portugal has put its flag carrier back on the block, and on 29 July 2026 two of Europe’s three airline mega-groups laid their cards on the table. Air France-KLM and Lufthansa Group both filed binding offers for a stake in TAP Air Portugal. The...
Ukraine Loses Another F-16 in Combat

Ukraine Loses Another F-16 in Combat

Share this story On 29 July 2026, the Ukrainian Air Force reported the loss of an F-16 during a combat mission to intercept Russian air targets. The pilot ejected and survived.According to the Air Force, controllers lost contact with the aircraft while it was engaged...
Air India’s Fuel Switch Passed Every Test

Air India’s Fuel Switch Passed Every Test

Share this story On 30 July 2026, India’s government told Parliament something that, more than a year after the Air India 171 disaster, only makes the central mystery harder to solve: the Boeing 787’s fuel control switches — the very components at the...
A US Drone Triggered a Korean Border Scare

A US Drone Triggered a Korean Border Scare

Share this story At about 2:30 in the afternoon on 30 July 2026, sensors along South Korea’s border with the North picked up something they couldn’t identify: an unmanned aircraft, near a frontline outpost, not squawking anything friendly. In the most...
A Falcon 50 Picks the Worst Place to Get Stuck

A Falcon 50 Picks the Worst Place to Get Stuck

Share this story Here is an aviation rarity: an incident where the scary part — a mechanical warning in flight — ended fine, and the embarrassing part happened on the ground, at walking pace.On the evening of 28 July 2026, a Dassault Falcon 50 three-engine...
Japan Scrambles Over the East China Sea

Japan Scrambles Over the East China Sea

Share this story On 29 July 2026, Japan launched fighter jets over the East China Sea after picking up a suspected airspace violation. Then the Ministry of Defense did what it usually does with these events: said almost nothing.No aircraft type was named. No...