Share this story The Airbus A220 has been the most underestimated commercial airliner of the past decade — a Canadian-designed jet (originally the Bombardier C Series) that quietly piled up loyal customers and stellar dispatch reliability while the headlines went to...
Share this story Brazil doesn’t always get credit for aerospace excellence. But on May 8, 2026, Embraer — headquartered in Sao Jose dos Campos — posted the best first quarter in its history. Revenue: $1.4 billion. Growth: 31% year-on-year. Operating profit: up...
Share this story There is a shipping container somewhere in the world right now that does not look like much. Steel box. Corner castings. Maybe a dent or two from a rough crossing. You have seen a million of them stacked at ports, rolling down highways on flatbeds,...
Share this story There is a sound that no aviation fan forgets. A rising howl of twin Pratt & Whitney TF30s at full afterburner, the variable-geometry wings sweeping back as the jet accelerates from a carrier deck at a rate that seems almost physically offensive —...
Share this story Atlas Air is the world’s largest operator of Boeing 747 freighters. The carrier flies more 747-8Fs and 747-400s than any other airline on Earth. The 747 is, in many ways, the brand. So when Atlas walks into Toulouse and signs a $7-billion order...
Share this story The aircraft is the size of a Cessna 172 but flies itself. There is no pilot. There is no cockpit. There is no second seat for an emergency manual override. Pyka’s Pelican Cargo just took off, flew a 200-kilometre route over central California,...
Share this story The General Electric J85 first ran on a test stand in 1956. Eisenhower was president. The Soviets had not yet launched Sputnik. Seventy years later, the same engine — virtually unchanged in its core architecture — is being kept alive by more than $178...
Share this story Most aviation news arrives with a roar. This one arrives with a quiet announcement that, somewhere over the cold North Atlantic, a U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon is now flying in a configuration that can probably hear a Russian submarine before the submarine...
Share this story On April 2, 2026, test pilot Paul Stone strapped into the cockpit of an aircraft that took off like a helicopter, tilted forward, and flew away like a plane. He was at Cotswold Airport in Gloucestershire, England. The aircraft was Vertical...
Share this story At 11:30 on the night of April 8, 2026, the pilots of Frontier Flight 3216 were taxiing their Airbus A321neo toward the runway at Los Angeles International Airport when two ground trucks cut directly across their path. The captain slammed on the...
Share this story Seventy-five hours. More than three days. That is how long the K1000ULE unmanned aircraft can stay airborne on a single mission — circling, watching, and relaying intelligence without landing. On April 7, 2026, U.S. Air Forces Central Command awarded...
Share this story The United States Air Force just invited the tech industry to build artificial intelligence data centres on some of the most remote military installations in America. The offer: 4,700 acres of underutilised land across three bases in Alaska. The...
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