Share this story Just after first light on July 10, ten F-22 Raptors dropped out of the English sky and rolled onto the runway at RAF Fairford under the callsign TREND. They looked like they had been to war. That is because they had. These were the 1st Fighter Wing’s...
Share this story Europe’s most recognisable low-cost airline has become the object of a transatlantic tug-of-war. On 10 July 2026, the board of easyJet told the market it was no longer minded to recommend a takeover proposal from the American investment firm...
Share this story A World Cup is, among many other things, an enormous logistics problem with a ball in the middle of it. The 2026 edition — the first hosted jointly by the United States, Canada and Mexico, spread across 16 cities and three countries — is the largest...
Share this story Denmark has decided how it will watch the top of the world. On Jul. 7, 2026, the Danish Ministry of Defence confirmed a provisional decision to buy two Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft — long-range sub-hunters built to prowl the North...
Share this story On Jul. 6, 2026, a new shape crossed into Czech airspace: a twin-engined, high-tailed jet transport in a distinctive three-tone grey, escorted the last stretch home by a pair of Saab JAS 39 Gripens. The newcomer was the Czech Air Force’s first...
Share this story When an airline picks a new long-haul jet, it usually picks a side. Boeing or Airbus. Dreamliner or A350. The engineering, the training, the spare parts, the pilot type-ratings — everything gets simpler when you commit to one family. Philippine...
Share this story For most of the last five years, the Boeing-versus-Airbus delivery race wasn’t a race at all. Crisis after crisis — the 737 MAX grounding, a pandemic, a factory-quality reckoning after a door plug blew off a jet in flight — left Boeing limping...
Share this story The holidaymakers on Zakynthos came for the beaches. On the afternoon of Jul. 9, 2026, they got something else entirely: a single-seat fighter jet sliding down the runway on its belly, trailing sparks, then wrapped in flame as fire crews rushed to...
Share this story A fighter is only as dangerous as the distance it can cross. On paper, America’s new F-47 is the longest-legged fighter the United States has ever built — and over the one map that matters most, the Western Pacific, it still comes up short. China’s...
Share this story The aircraft that worries American air base commanders most in 2026 is not a Chinese stealth fighter or a Russian bomber. It is a battery-powered quadcopter that costs less than a used laptop, and there is nothing to stop a hostile one from buzzing...
Share this story For three-quarters of a century, European security rested on a single quiet assumption: if the sky over the continent ever caught fire, American airpower would arrive to put it out. At this month’s NATO summit, the alliance’s top commander made clear...
Share this story The United States plans to rely on the AGM-181 to keep its airborne nuclear deterrent credible deep into the 2050s. To get there, it has exactly one aircraft cleared to test the missile: the B-52, a bomber whose last airframe rolled off the line in...
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