Share this story On 29 July 2026, Japan launched fighter jets over the East China Sea after picking up a suspected airspace violation. Then the Ministry of Defense did what it usually does with these events: said almost nothing.No aircraft type was named. No...
Share this story They are the smallest and the largest members of the 737 MAX family, and for years they have been the two that would not cross the finish line. On 28 July 2026, Boeing said both the 737-7 (MAX 7) and 737-10 (MAX 10) have finally finished their...
Share this story For sixty years, the sight of a C-2A Greyhound turning onto final told a carrier crew everything they needed to know: the mail was here, the spare part was here, the Sailor going home was here. On 28 July 2026, that homely twin-turboprop made the...
Share this story Six weeks ago, Riyadh Air did not fly anywhere. On 30 July 2026, Saudi Arabia’s brand-new flag carrier opens a year-round route between Riyadh and Kuala Lumpur — its first scheduled service into Southeast Asia, and another sprint in one of...
Share this story For one week every July, a regional airport in eastern Wisconsin becomes the busiest patch of sky on the planet. In 2026 it also became the most crowded it has ever been. EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2026, the annual fly-in the Experimental Aircraft...
Share this story The order is worth SEK 10.1 billion — a little over one billion US dollars. It covers two of the most sophisticated surveillance aircraft flying today. And the customer? Saab will not say. Not the country, not the air force, not a single...
Share this story Six weeks ago, a B-52 Stratofortress carrying the U.S. Air Force’s brand-new radar rolled down the runway at Edwards Air Force Base, lifted off, and crashed. All eight crew were killed. The single jet fitted with the upgrade the entire bomber...
Share this story Somewhere over the cold Atlantic off Nova Scotia, about six and a half hours into an eight-hour crossing, passengers in the front of a Zurich-to-New York flight caught the one smell nobody wants at 30,000 feet: hot electrics. Smoke was seeping into...
Share this story There is a hangar in Aichi Prefecture where Japan already bolts together the most advanced fighter it has ever flown — the F-35 Lightning II, screwed together under licence for the Air Self-Defense Force. Soon that same hall will assemble something...
Share this story On 24 July, a rule two decades in the making rewrote what counts as a light-sport aircraft in America — and, with it, what a beginner pilot is allowed to fly. MOSAIC, the Modernization of Special Airworthiness Certification, tears up the...
Share this story For four years a quiet turf war has run between the companies building 5G networks and the people who land airplanes. On 24 July, the FAA moved to end it. The agency is issuing a final rule requiring aircraft radio altimeters to shrug off interference...
Share this story It is named after a sound. The BRRRRT Act — yes, really — is Congress’s latest attempt to keep the A-10 Thunderbolt II flying, and it wants more of the jets in the air than the Air Force is willing to keep. Rep. Abe Hamadeh (R-Ariz.)...
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