An airliner fuselage contains something in the order of a million rivets. Each one is a hole drilled through the skin, which is to say a stress concentration deliberately introduced into a pressure vessel, repeated a million times. A welded fuselage would have none of...
American, United and Southwest all told investors on 16 September that surging jet fuel is forcing capacity cuts. Demand is fine. The arithmetic is not.
The US Space Force is targeting 25,000 uniformed Guardians and 12,500 civilians by fiscal 2031 — a 134 percent increase. Recruiting is not the hard part.
GA-ASI and Hanwha landed a Mojave STOL on a tank manoeuvre trail inside a live-fire range, then flew it out again — a first for a MALE-class drone.
Ukraine says SBU drones destroyed an An-12, two An-26s and three helicopters at Rostov-on-Don Tsentralny overnight into 17 September 2026.
Lufthansa Group has exercised options for 20 Boeing 737 MAX 10s worth about $3.4 billion at list, earmarked to replace older Airbus A320-family jets.
An F-16 of the Texas Air National Guard’s 149th Fighter Wing came down in Grand Traverse County on 17 September. The pilot ejected and survived.
A 149th Fighter Wing F-16 came down in Grand Traverse County on 17 September during Operation Northern Cactus. The pilot ejected and is in stable condition.
The French Navy asked for four hours of loiter and 700 km/h in one carrier aircraft. Bréguet’s answer had a turboprop in the nose and a turbojet in the tail.
In 1966 the FAA picked Boeing to build America’s supersonic airliner. Lockheed’s L-2000 lost for being too sensible. Then Boeing rebuilt it as a Lockheed.
The decision that saved El Al Flight 219 was not the dive. It was made on the ground at Schiphol, before anyone boarded, and it nearly cost the captain his career. On 6 September 1970 a Boeing 707 left Amsterdam for New York with 138 passengers and 10 crew. Two of...
He left school at eleven, learned to fly in three lessons, was the first man to spin an aeroplane deliberately and recover, and was mourned as dead for six days in 1919.
In 1949 Sukhoi drew a fighter whose entire nose section could separate as an escape capsule, a decade before the West tried it. One was built. It never flew.
One aircraft was built, offered to Australia, and never ordered. It killed Hawker’s chief test pilot, a Battle of Britain ace, and its data became the Hawker Hunter.
In September 1961 two Luftwaffe F-84Fs strayed over East Germany, outran Soviet fighters in cloud and landed in Berlin. The French buried them. The Defence Minister issued an order named after beer.
Air Mobility Command will spend $250 million on a Boeing 737 MAX to expand the C-40 VIP fleet, making the U.S. Air Force the first military operator of the type.
Of 96 veterans in Congress, fifteen served in the Air Force and exactly one flew fighters. Rep. August Pfluger says that is why the Air Force struggles to make its case.