On Sunday afternoon a Boeing 767 freighter came off the end of runway 30 at Miami International, crossed the ground beyond it, struck vehicles and burned. Five people on the ground were killed. Both pilots survived with injuries. Within a day the question had narrowed...
Two Russian Su-35S fighters collided in the air over Russia’s Kursk region on Sunday. One pilot was killed. The other ejected and was injured. That is the entire confirmed account, and even it is not confirmed in any official sense. The report comes from...
The sun went down over the Egyptian Mediterranean coast on Friday evening and left a row of American warplanes in silhouette: a C-130 Hercules, an A-10 Thunderbolt II, an F-16 Fighting Falcon and an F-15E Strike Eagle, parked nose-on to the desert. A few hundred...
A US Air Force casualty assistance officer told the widow of a major killed in a KC-135 crash that certain combat-related benefits were not available to her family, because — in his words — the United States has not declared war. That is not how any of it...
An Embraer 170 flew from Puget Sound to southern Alaska and back, four hours and twenty-three minutes, with GPS switched off the whole way. It navigated by reading the magnetic field of the rocks underneath it. This is being reported in several places as the US Air...
Just after midnight on Pakistan Air Force Day, the PAF posted a patriotic music video called Fizaon K Pasbaan — Guardians of the Skies. Around twenty-eight seconds in, a six-wheeled air-defence vehicle with a large rectangular radar array rolls past. Pakistan...
Denmark has quietly finished buying sixteen more F-35As, taking its fleet from twenty-seven to forty-three. Nobody announced it. It surfaced in a Pentagon accounting document. The Danish government and the F-35 Joint Program Office closed the deal by 21 April 2026....
The thing hanging under the F-15 was not a bomb. It was a two-stage rocket seventeen feet ten inches long, and inside its nose sat an object the size of a large coffee can that weighed thirty pounds, carried no explosive of any kind, and had no engine capable of...
Switzerland voted for its new fighter jets in 2020 by 8,670 votes. It signed for 36 of them in 2022 at a price it believed was fixed. In August 2025 the Americans explained that the price had never been fixed. In March 2026 the Federal Council gave up on 36 and said...
A student fighter pilot four weeks into his posting, with twenty-one hours on type, was holding formation on his instructor at 28,000 feet over northern Japan. He saw the airliner about two seconds before it hit him, in his four o’clock. His right wing root...
On a Tuesday evening in September 1909, in the hills behind Piedmont, California, a Chinese machinist took off in a biplane he had designed, built and powered with an engine he had also built, and flew an elliptical circuit around a hilltop for about twenty minutes...
She had held a pilot’s licence for thirteen months and had forty hours of flying in her logbook, total. The aeroplane was a wood-and-fabric trainer with an eighty-horsepower rotary engine and a service ceiling of about 4,300 metres. Aconcagua, off to her right,...
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