Share this story The tower told the Amazon jet it was cleared to land. It did not tell the crew what the wind was doing. Four minutes earlier, on another frequency, controllers had passed the gusts to someone else. That is one of the central findings in the National...
Share this story India’s biggest fighter deal in a generation has a deadline. Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh said on 1 October that the bids for 114 more Dassault Rafale jets for the Indian Air Force are being evaluated, and that New Delhi expects to reach...
Share this story Russia lost a helicopter and its crew over its own territory on the evening of 1 October. If the reports coming out of the Voronezh region are right, the missile or the shells that brought it down came from a Russian fighter. According to Telegram...
Share this story He was on the cockpit floor, bleeding from wounds to his head and hands, when he felt it. The Boeing 737 was going down. Captain Smit Machchhar, the Indian pilot in command of flydubai flight FZ1073 from Dubai to Tel Aviv on 30 September, has now told...
Share this story France has put a date on its first robot wingman. In 2028 the French Air and Space Force plans to fly a Rafale together with an uncrewed collaborative combat aircraft, a so-called loyal wingman, in a first crewed-uncrewed test flight. The plan was...
Share this story The statement came on 1 October, short and plain, the way these statements always are. A MiG-29 had been hit by a Russian missile during a combat mission. The pilot had ejected. He had not survived. His name was Captain Marat Redvanovych Mambetov, a...
Share this story For more than two decades, Norwegian Air Shuttle has flown other people’s faces around Europe. Greta Garbo has gazed out from the fin of a Boeing 737-800. Sonja Henie, Thor Heyerdahl and Edvard Munch have taken their turns up there too. This...
Share this story A fair-haired woman in a flowing red dress flies across the nose of Virgin Atlantic’s newest jet, a Union flag streaming beside her. Look closer and the underside of her skirt is tartan. Beneath her feet are two words: Viva Forever. Virgin...
Share this story Asked what Ukraine’s first FP-7 ballistic missile strike had hit, President Volodymyr Zelensky’s communications adviser gave the Kyiv Independent a three-word answer: “We’re not telling.” That is most of what is known...
Share this story It took about five minutes for El Al to sell every seat on its first two rescue flights out of Dubai. By Friday morning, both flights were cancelled. Landing approval for Israeli airlines in Dubai had been withdrawn overnight, El Al said. Israeli...
Share this story America’s Cold War missile-warning constellation went out with a workout. In September, during US Space Command’s Apollo Maneuvers 2026 live-fly exercise, Guardians of the 2nd Space Warning Squadron put the last two Defense Support Program...
Share this story In February 2023 a Brazilian Air Force KC-390 stood on the static line at Yelahanka in Bengaluru, the type’s first appearance at Aero India. Embraer had nothing on the table. “There is no proposal, but the IAF chief, along with his...
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