Share this story Sanctions usually work slowly. You cannot buy this aircraft, you cannot get that part, and a fleet quietly ages into uselessness over twenty years. What the US Treasury Secretary described on Monday is something faster and blunter. “On September...
Share this story For most of sixty years, the most famous helipad in the world was a metal disc laid on grass. Marine pilots bringing the president home to the White House aimed for it, set down on the South Lawn turf, and departed again. It worked because the...
Share this story Three aircraft, one photograph. On the left, an F-15E Strike Eagle in Nellis test markings, tail code OT. In the middle, an F-35A. On the right, something with no cockpit, no canopy, no pilot: a General Atomics FQ-42 Vengeance, sitting in formation as...
Share this story Thirteen days. That is how long British aviation got between one national air traffic control failure and the next. Early on Monday morning a connectivity fault hit the NATS centre at Prestwick, the facility that runs Scottish upper airspace and feeds...
Share this story The fires at the Kapotnya refinery were out by Sunday afternoon. The damage to Russian civil aviation took two more days to count. According to the aviation security firm Osprey, the Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow overnight from 19 to 20 September...
Share this story At about ten o’clock on Monday morning, the Federal Aviation Administration stopped Newark Liberty, Teterboro and Philadelphia International. At one in the afternoon it added John F. Kennedy and LaGuardia. Between roughly 09:40 and just after...
Share this story Somewhere inside US Central Command’s area of operations on Sunday, ordnance crews were doing the job that makes a war real: lifting live weapons onto aeroplanes. Then the word came down to stop. President Donald Trump called off a planned...
Share this story A hundred nautical miles north of Dutch Harbor is not anywhere. It is grey water, weather that arrives sideways, and the shortest line between the Aleutians and the Russian Far East. This week it has an American and Canadian task force in it, and...
Share this story Captain Daniel Arsenault was running a morning charter out of Pensacola on Saturday when he spotted something floating offshore. He went over for a look, the way you do. Underneath it was a good-size mahi-mahi, which went straight into a cooler...
Share this story Kapotnya sits nine miles from the Kremlin. It is not a military district. It is chimneys and pipework and a wall of apartment blocks pressed right up against the fence, and on the night of 19 September it was lit from below by its own fires. By Sunday...
Share this story On 18 August 2026 a single A-10C Thunderbolt II took off from Nellis Air Force Base, flew a training mission over the Nevada Test and Training Range, and landed. Nothing about the sortie was unusual except everything about it. The aircraft was...
Share this story Delta has not flown to Monterey since 2008. From 19 December it will fly there twice a day from Los Angeles and once a day from Salt Lake City. The airline announced three new domestic routes on Friday, two of them serving a small coastal California...
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