Share this story In August 1944, 168 Allied airmen — American, British, Canadian, Australian and New Zealander — arrived at Buchenwald concentration camp. They were not spies or saboteurs. They were downed aircrew, men who should by every law of war have...
Share this story On a June day in 1945, Muscovites watched a giant four-engined bomber bank over a restricted airfield in the city’s northeast. Red stars marked the wings, but sharp eyes could still read two English words on the nose: “Ramp Tramp.”...
Share this story It had three engines, a great ugly hump on its back, and a name its own crews spat out with grim affection: il gobbo maledetto — the damned hunchback. Yet the Savoia-Marchetti SM.79 Sparviero was, for a time, one of the finest torpedo bombers of...
Share this story Germany went into the Second World War without a modern four-engine heavy bomber, and it spent much of the war failing to build one. The aircraft meant to fix that — the Heinkel He 177 Greif — had four engines but only two propellers, a...
Share this story In 1947 a German with a false passport stepped off a ship in Buenos Aires. The name on the document read Pedro Matthies. The man was Kurt Tank — former technical director of Focke-Wulf, the designer of the Fw 190, and the head of the team behind...
Share this story For much of two days, Kyiv did not get the all-clear. Ukrainian officials say air-raid alerts sounded almost continuously from midnight on August 27 until midday on August 29 — roughly 28 hours — as Russia rolled wave after wave of drones...
Share this story Russia’s aircraft industry has settled into a wartime rhythm, and on 27 August 2026 it produced another familiar bulletin. The United Aircraft Corporation announced that a fresh batch of Su-35S fighters had been handed to the Russian Aerospace...
Share this story A Czech startup that has spent the better part of a decade quietly flying odd-looking prototypes just showed its hand. On 27 August 2026, Prague-based Zuri unveiled its first commercial product: an uncrewed cargo tiltrotor built to lift a couple of...
Share this story Three days after United rolled out ten new international destinations, American Airlines answered on August 27 with a transatlantic land-grab of its own: seven new international routes for summer 2027, three of them to cities American has never...
Share this story On the afternoon of August 28, five grey shapes dropped out of the Atlantic murk and settled onto the runway at Łask, in central Poland. Tail numbers 3512, 3513, 3514, 3515 and 3516. With their wheels down, Poland’s fleet of fifth-generation...
Share this story At 09:40 on the morning of 28 August 2026, a twin-tailed shape lifted off the runway at Linköping and climbed into a grey Swedish sky. Forty minutes later it was back on the ground — and the Gripen family had a new member. The two-seat...
Share this story It was nearly 27 metres of gleaming Soviet ambition — a needle-nosed, missile-armed interceptor built to swat American bombers out of the stratosphere. On 16 July 1956 the Lavochkin La-250 lifted off for the first time, rolled uncontrollably,...
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