Share this story For 55 years, the helicopter that answers the phone in a Washington crisis has had two rotor blades and a whup-whup-whup that Washingtonians know by heart. On Monday 2 November 2026, its replacement finally showed up for work. A grey HH-60W Jolly...
Share this story On 18 July 1965, Commander Jeremiah Denton of attack squadron VA-75 was leading a strike over North Vietnam in a Grumman A-6A Intruder when his aircraft was hit near Thanh Hoa. He and his bombardier-navigator, Bill Tschudy, ejected and were captured...
Share this story Early on the morning of 8 January 1944, busloads of generals and political guests pulled up beside the dry lake bed at Muroc Army Air Field in California, today’s Edwards Air Force Base. They had come to watch a small, dark green fighter with no...
Share this story At around 8.20pm on Friday 30 October 2026, States of Jersey Police took the first call: drones in the restricted airspace over Jersey Airport. The reports kept coming for more than two hours. By the time they stopped, three airliners bound for the...
Share this story Shemya is two miles wide, four miles long and sits near the far western end of the Aleutian chain, closer to Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula than to Anchorage. For the second half of October 2026, it was home to something it had not hosted in a...
Share this story Just before a quarter to six on the evening of Thursday 29 October, a Boeing 747 came in low from the south over the White House South Lawn. Children in Halloween costumes looked up, President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump waved, and about...
Share this story The U.S. Army’s newest spy plane has been flying for seven weeks, and almost nobody knew. On 30 October 2026 the Army’s Fixed Wing Project Office announced that the first HADES prototype, a heavily modified Bombardier Global 6500 business...
Share this story General Atomics has a habit of showing you the aeroplane only once it is already flying. So when the company volunteered, in a statement to TWZ published on 30 October, that it is building a large flying wing called NextGen, the detail worth reading...
Share this story In 2003, a US Air Force test pilot named Troy Asher flew a B-1B bomber to a string of world speed records. Twenty-five of them, according to NASA. On Thursday, 29 October 2026, NASA put the same pilot in charge of the place where America flies its...
Share this story This summer, a grey helicopter with no crew on board lifted off from Michael Army Airfield at Dugway Proving Ground in the Utah desert. Not long before, aircraft like it were being packed off to the boneyard in Arizona. Now it flies for the US Army as...
Share this story Two passengers sit side by side in economy, same flight, same legroom, same sandwich. One paid several times what the other did. Neither was cheated, and neither was tracked by a cookie. They simply bought different products that happen to occupy...
Share this story On the afternoon of 14 November 1965, the clearing called LZ X-Ray was the most dangerous patch of ground in South Vietnam. North Vietnamese machine guns covered it from the slopes of the Chu Pong massif. The medical evacuation helicopters would not...
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