Share this story In August 1944, as Allied armies raced across France, a 52-year-old prisoner was put aboard a transport at Drancy bound for the Buchenwald concentration camp. The Vichy regime had already jailed him, together with his wife and children. Now the Nazis...
Share this story At noon on 18 February 1944, the guards of Amiens prison sat down to lunch, as they did every day. Outside, snow lay deep across Picardy and the sky was a low grey ceiling. Inside the cruciform building, behind a three-and-a-half-metre perimeter wall,...
Share this story Off the south coast of England, a small black flying wing shot off a catapult rail bolted to the deck of a moving Royal Navy ship, climbed away on a whining turbojet, and flew itself to a target. No pilot, no recovery, no second chances — the Nyan is...
Share this story Somewhere over central France in the late 1950s, test pilot André Turcat pushes a strange delta-winged aircraft past the speed where a normal jet engine begins to gasp for air. And that is when the Nord Griffon comes alive. Behind him, a ramjet the...
Share this story Every July, a quiet corner of Gloucestershire becomes the busiest military airfield on Earth. Fighters, bombers and display teams from dozens of nations pack the ramp at RAF Fairford for the Royal International Air Tattoo — the largest military...
Share this story For decades, one rule has sat quietly at the centre of Western air power: a human being decides when a weapon kills. On June 30, 2026, Britain edged away from it. Buried inside a sweeping Defence Investment Plan — more than £5 billion for drones, the...
Comparte esta historia. Durante meses, el programa de cazas más ambicioso de Europa tuvo un problema: la financiación. El 3 de julio de 2026, ese problema se solucionó. El Reino Unido, Italia y Japón firmaron un contrato de 4.600 millones de libras esterlinas ($6.100 millones) para impulsar su programa de sexta generación...
Share this story For 44 years, the deep rumble of Boeing E-3A Sentries out of Geilenkirchen has been the sound of NATO watching its own skies. Now, according to a Reuters report published on 2 July, the alliance is preparing to hand that job to a jet from a country...
Share this story Share this story China has grounded all general aviation nationwide — private light aircraft, business jets, flight schools, parachute clubs, and glider operations — after a small single-engine plane crashed into the CITIC Tower in central Beijing on...
Share this story The world’s most ambitious sixth-generation fighter programme just survived its biggest political test. The United Kingdom has committed £8.6 billion over the next four years to the Global Combat Air Programme, as part of its new £298 billion...
Un KC-390 Millennium (FAB 2858) de la Fuerza Aérea Brasileña en exhibición en los Días de la OTAN 2023 en la República Checa. La aeronave ha ganado rápidamente popularidad entre las fuerzas aéreas europeas. (Wikimedia Commons) En febrero de 2026, Embraer y Northrop Grumman firmaron un memorando de...
El 10 de marzo de 2026, más de 400 clientes, socios y ejecutivos de la aviación se reunieron en una nueva nave de producción en Bordeaux-Mérignac, donde Dassault Aviation presentó el Falcon 10X, el avión de negocios más grande, con mayor alcance y tecnológicamente más avanzado...
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