Share this story The float was a few bamboo logs, and the man clinging to it had a right arm broken in three places, bare feet cut to ribbons and branches heaped over him for cover. He was crossing the Ben Hai, the river that divided North from South Vietnam. A sentry...
Share this story For more than two decades, Norwegian Air Shuttle has flown other people’s faces around Europe. Greta Garbo has gazed out from the fin of a Boeing 737-800. Sonja Henie, Thor Heyerdahl and Edvard Munch have taken their turns up there too. This...
Share this story A fair-haired woman in a flowing red dress flies across the nose of Virgin Atlantic’s newest jet, a Union flag streaming beside her. Look closer and the underside of her skirt is tartan. Beneath her feet are two words: Viva Forever. Virgin...
Share this story Asked what Ukraine’s first FP-7 ballistic missile strike had hit, President Volodymyr Zelensky’s communications adviser gave the Kyiv Independent a three-word answer: “We’re not telling.” That is most of what is known...
Share this story It took about five minutes for El Al to sell every seat on its first two rescue flights out of Dubai. By Friday morning, both flights were cancelled. Landing approval for Israeli airlines in Dubai had been withdrawn overnight, El Al said. Israeli...
Share this story America’s Cold War missile-warning constellation went out with a workout. In September, during US Space Command’s Apollo Maneuvers 2026 live-fly exercise, Guardians of the 2nd Space Warning Squadron put the last two Defense Support Program...
Share this story In February 2023 a Brazilian Air Force KC-390 stood on the static line at Yelahanka in Bengaluru, the type’s first appearance at Aero India. Embraer had nothing on the table. “There is no proposal, but the IAF chief, along with his...
Share this story On a single-pilot flight, one medical emergency in the left seat can leave everyone else aboard in an aircraft none of them can fly. Garmin’s answer, unveiled in 2019, is Autoland: press a button and the avionics handle everything from choosing...
Share this story The Royal Air Force owns 22 A400M Atlas transports. On a typical day, ten of them are fully mission-capable. That is the baseline the Ministry of Defence itself published on 1 October, when it extended Airbus’s contract to maintain the RAF A400M...
Share this story Nothing in the US Navy’s caption mentions an AIM-260 on the Super Hornet in the frame. It describes a Royal Australian Air Force F/A-18F of No. 1 Squadron taking flight from Naval Base Ventura County Point Mugu, California, on 11 September 2026,...
Share this story At about 7:45 pm on Wednesday 30 September, a REACH Air Medical Services EC135 air ambulance lifted off from the Pebbly Beach heliport on Santa Catalina Island, about a mile from Avalon, carrying a patient to the mainland. Within moments it was in the...
Share this story Des Moines is getting a fighter factory. Not the one in Iowa: the Des Moines on Puget Sound, about 15 minutes south of Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, where, GeekWire reports, the roof is going onto a 420,000-square-foot building due to open in...
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