A Turkish Airlines A350 taxied onto an active Newark runway without clearance. The phrase that caused it is used thousands of times a day.
Davis-Monthan Inactivates Its Last A-10 Units
Four guidons cased in one ceremony end fifty years of A-10 operations at Davis-Monthan — while Congress is still arguing about whether the Warthog should go at all.
Danish F-35s Land in Greenland for the First Time
Two Royal Danish Air Force F-35As landed at Kangerlussuaq on 16 September alongside US F-16s and Canadian CF-18s — the first time the type has been on the ground in Greenland.
The One Test Stand Keeping F-22s and B-2s Flying
The only stand able to validate F-22 and B-2 accessory drives caught fire and its maker no longer exists. How a squadron at Hill AFB rebuilt it in-house.
Thunderbird F-16 Crash: A Vane Nobody Could Inspect
The accident report on last December’s Thunderbirds F-16 crash blames a turned compressor vane in a stage field maintainers cannot see — the same failure that destroyed an F-16 in 2024.
Australia Declares the Triton and the Peregrine Operational
The RAAF declared IOC for the MQ-4C Triton and the MC-55A Peregrine on the same day — one aircraft that watches for 24 hours at a time, and one that nobody will describe.
Iran War Losses: The Pentagon and CBO Finally Publish the Numbers
Two US government reports put official figures on the damage Iran has done to American airpower. The aircraft bill is $3.3bn. The interceptor bill is worse.
Europe’s Airlift Gap: EDA Weighs An-124 Refit or a New C-17
An eighteen-month European Defence Agency study lands on two options for outsize airlift: rebuild the An-124 fleet, or design a European replacement for the C-17.
RAF Voyager Deploys to Help Defend Saudi Airspace
Britain is sending a single Voyager tanker to support Saudi defences against Houthi missiles and drones — the first foreign military help Riyadh has received for this fight.
F-16 Crashes at Spangdahlem: Second US Falcon Lost in a Week
A 52nd Fighter Wing F-16CM came down on the Spangdahlem golf course, metres short of Runway 04. The pilot ejected. It is the second US Air Force Falcon lost in a week.
FAA Age Limits: Why Pilots Retire at 65 and Controllers Start by 31
Two of the most demanding jobs in aviation have hard age limits written into American law. One of them ends a career. The other one prevents a career from ever starting. An airline captain who is flying a perfect line check on the morning of their 65th birthday is...
How Fighter Pilots Pee: Piddle Packs, AIRUS and Tactical Dehydration
It is the question every fighter pilot gets asked at a dinner party, and the one the US Air Force spent five years and a public innovation competition trying to answer properly. How do you go to the toilet when you are strapped into an ejection seat, wearing a...
F-35 Parts Diverted to Hong Kong: Australia Confirms the Shipment
A crate of broken fighter parts is the least glamorous object in military aviation. Nobody guards it the way they guard a jet. It goes in a container, on a commercial aircraft, and turns up at a repair shop on the other side of the world. That is how the F-35...
Canadian Army Aviation: Artillery Officers in Air Force Squadrons
664 Squadron carried an RCAF number and its pilots were artillery officers. For twenty years the Army and the air force argued over who was allowed to fly — and the answer kept changing.
Canadian Forces Unification: The Day Canada Abolished Its Air Force
On 1 February 1968 the RCN, the Canadian Army and the RCAF ceased to exist. For the next seven and a half years Canada had military aircraft but no air force organisation at all.
CS2F Tracker: The Submarine Hunter de Havilland Canada Built 99 Of
Canada bought the Grumman Tracker because it was short enough to fit HMCS Bonaventure, then built 99 at Downsview. The carrier went in 1970; the aircraft flew on until 1990.
HMS Nabob: The Canadian-Crewed Carrier That Took a Torpedo and Sailed Home
A Royal Navy escort carrier with a Canadian crew, torpedoed off North Cape in August 1944, ordered sunk if she could not steam — and the two Avengers she flew off her sloping deck on the way home.