Canada to West Africa, Nonstop at Last

Canada to West Africa, Nonstop at Last

Share this story For as long as anyone could remember, getting from Montreal to Dakar meant flying the wrong way first. North-east to Paris or Brussels, a layover, then back south to Senegal — a journey of twelve hours or more to reach a city that sits almost due east...
Europe Rolls Out Its Robot Wingmen

Europe Rolls Out Its Robot Wingmen

Share this story For years, the race to build “robot wingmen” — uncrewed jets that fight alongside human pilots — looked like an American and Australian story. In a single week in June, Europe planted its flag.At the ILA air show in Berlin, two very different European...
The First F-35 in Wild Weasel War Paint

The First F-35 in Wild Weasel War Paint

Share this story On 16 June a brand-new F-35A lifted off from Fort Worth, flew for about an hour, and came home behind a chase jet. Routine — except for two black letters painted on its tail: WW.Those letters make aircraft 24-5970 the first F-35 ever to wear the Wild...
Turkey’s Radar-Killer Jet Steps Into View

Turkey’s Radar-Killer Jet Steps Into View

Share this story It looks, at a glance, like a rich man’s toy: a sleek Bombardier business jet, the kind that ferries executives between capitals. Then you notice the lumps. A long blade running down its spine, blisters under the belly, a fairing crowning the tail —...
Airbus Flies the World’s Longest-Range Airliner

Airbus Flies the World’s Longest-Range Airliner

Share this story On the morning of 2 June, a pale green, primer-coated jet lifted off from Toulouse and climbed past 41,000 feet over the south of France. It carried no passengers, only test instrumentation and a hand-picked Airbus crew. It also carried a title: the...
Marines Land F-35Bs on a Finnish Highway

Marines Land F-35Bs on a Finnish Highway

Share this story It costs north of a hundred million dollars, it is the most sophisticated fighter the United States builds, and on the morning of 9 June it was sitting on a two-lane road in the Finnish woods, taking on fuel with pine trees a wingspan away.Two U.S....
Why Russia Can’t Stop Ukraine’s Drones

Why Russia Can’t Stop Ukraine’s Drones

Share this story Just after midnight on 18 June 2026, residents of Moscow filmed something the Russian capital was not built to see: black smoke boiling over the Kapotnya district, where the Moscow Oil Refinery sits. It was the second strike on that single plant in a...
The $3,500 Drone That Kills Without a Pilot

The $3,500 Drone That Kills Without a Pilot

Share this story The buzz of a Shahed over Kharkiv has become one of the most dreaded sounds of this war. On the night of 8 June 2026, something answered it that no human was flying. A small fixed-wing interceptor lifted off, climbed to its waiting altitude, picked...
Montreal Just Got a Whole New Airport

Montreal Just Got a Whole New Airport

Share this story At 7 a.m. on 15 June 2026, a Porter Airlines Embraer E195-E2 rolled toward the runway at a South Shore airfield that had not seen a scheduled airline departure in living memory. As flight PD181 lined up for Vancouver, the airport fire trucks arched a...