Share this story Asked at a press roundtable whether the US Air Force would like to build new C-17s, the general in charge of American airlift did not hedge for long. “Heck yeah,” said Lt. Gen. Daniel Tulley, head of Air Mobility Command. Then came the...
Share this story The first thing the world saw was a tailfin. Scorched, standing upright in a burnt patch of Marib scrub, with the green and white of the Saudi flag still legible through the soot. On 16 September 2026, Yemen’s Houthi movement — formally Ansar Allah —...
Share this story The highest-scoring American ace of the Vietnam War never flew the aeroplane. On 9 September 1972, Captain Charles B. DeBellevue shot down his fifth and sixth MiGs from the back seat of an F-4D Phantom. He was a weapon systems officer. The stick and...
Share this story Ukraine has spent this war building some of the densest electronic warfare cover on earth. Along much of the front line, GPS and GLONASS simply do not work. A drone that depends on satellite navigation arrives over the target having forgotten where it...
Share this story A radar-guided missile announces itself. It has to: something has to illuminate the target, and the moment that happens the target knows it is being shot at.An infrared missile says nothing at all. It emits no signal, because it is not looking for a...
Share this story Smoking has been banned on commercial flights for decades. The signs are lit from pushback to gate. Tampering with a lavatory smoke detector will get you arrested.And yet every airliner rolling off the line at Toulouse or Renton this year has an...
Share this story Every civil aircraft in the world carries a registration painted on its tail or fuselage, and the first character or two tells you where it is registered. American aircraft start with N. British with G. German with D. Swiss with HB.The obvious...
Share this story The Battle of Britain has a famous date, and it is 15 September. That is Battle of Britain Day, the climax, the one in the calendar.It is not the day that cost the most. That was Sunday 18 August 1940, when the Luftwaffe made an all-out attempt to...
Share this story At 07:38 on the morning of 18 April 1942, a 70-ton Japanese patrol boat called the Nittō Maru spotted an American task force about 650 nautical miles east of Japan and got a radio message off before the cruiser Nashville sank her.That message...
Share this story Turkish Airlines does not have an aircraft problem. It has an engine problem, and it has spent the better part of a year using one to solve the other.A 150-aircraft Boeing 737 MAX order — announced with considerable ceremony after President...
Share this story Korean Air signed the paperwork in Seoul this week, and the number on it is the largest in the airline’s history: roughly 60 trillion won, about $44.8 billion, for 103 Boeing aircraft and the engines to keep them running.This is the moment an...
Share this story Air Combat Command’s director of operations stood up at the Air, Space and Cyber conference this week and said the F-35 “absolutely proved itself” in combat over Iran.He is right. He also attached a condition to the sentence that is...
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