Share this story After months of frosty politics between Warsaw and Kyiv, the first concrete sign of a thaw comes with a pair of Soviet-designed fighters. Poland has decided to hand two more MiG-29 Fulcrums to Ukraine, a senior Polish defence official told the...
Share this story Two grey jets with the yellow-and-blue RMAF roundel on their intakes rolled to a stop at Labuan Air Base on Friday, 30 October 2026. They had flown down from Sacheon in South Korea, where Korea Aerospace Industries builds them, and they are the first...
Share this story Concorde never floated gently onto a runway. It arrived nose-high, droop nose lowered so the pilots could see over it, touching down at around 170 mph at a far steeper angle of attack than any conventional airliner would use. Above that pale triangle,...
Share this story At 09:30 on 15 August 1942, a tanker that had been torpedoed, bombed and hit by a crashing dive bomber crept into Grand Harbour, Valletta. She had a broken back, her decks were almost awash, and two destroyers were lashed to her sides to hold her up....
Share this story At eight o’clock on the morning of 20 May 1941, the sky over western Crete filled with Junkers Ju 52 transports flying low and slow over the olive groves. Out of their doors tumbled the Fallschirmjäger, Germany’s elite paratroopers,...
Share this story This summer, a grey helicopter with no crew on board lifted off from Michael Army Airfield at Dugway Proving Ground in the Utah desert. Not long before, aircraft like it were being packed off to the boneyard in Arizona. Now it flies for the US Army as...
Share this story The doors are shut, the seatbelt sign is on, and the terminal starts to slide away from the window. Yet the engines are silent. A machine built to cross oceans is being shoved backwards by a squat tractor barely taller than a car, while a ground...
Share this story On the afternoon of 4 December 1950, a Navy fighter pilot looked down at a burning wreck on a frozen North Korean mountainside and made a decision his own training told him not to make. His wingman was alive, trapped in the cockpit, and smoke was...
Share this story Two passengers sit side by side in economy, same flight, same legroom, same sandwich. One paid several times what the other did. Neither was cheated, and neither was tracked by a cookie. They simply bought different products that happen to occupy...
Share this story At 12:32 on 7 April 1945, a lookout on the bridge of the battleship Yamato spotted the first wave of American carrier aircraft. Less than two hours later the largest battleship ever built rolled over and blew up, sending a mushroom cloud thousands of...
Share this story Bushire, on the Persian Gulf, December 1931. An American pilot is working on his biplane when a battered Ford rolls out of the desert. In it, half-buried in dust, is a young woman looking for a mechanic. Her own aircraft is stranded up the coast with...
Share this story On the afternoon of 14 November 1965, the clearing called LZ X-Ray was the most dangerous patch of ground in South Vietnam. North Vietnamese machine guns covered it from the slopes of the Chu Pong massif. The medical evacuation helicopters would not...
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