Share this story Fighter jets keep diaries. They keep them in stencilled paint, just below the cockpit rail, and if you know how to read them they will tell you exactly what kind of year the crews have had. On the Fourth of July, as the Super Hornets of Carrier Air...
Share this story The Boeing 737 freighter working K2 Airways flight 1732 on Tuesday evening was less than an hour from home. It had left Sharjah for Karachi with five crew and a hold full of cargo, a two-hour hop across the Arabian Sea that Pakistani freight operators...
Regardez le flanc du navire et vous le verrez : le fantôme d'un avion. Deux ailes, un fuselage, même les jambes d'un train d'atterrissage fixe — la silhouette grandeur nature d'un appareil, imprimée sur l'acier gris de la marine. C'est l'une des photographies les plus étranges et les plus troublantes...
Dans l'histoire des avions de chasse, on oublie presque toujours le finaliste. L'appareil qui perd la compétition se voit attribuer une plaque commémorative dans un musée, s'il a de la chance, tandis que le vainqueur obtient la production en série. Le Northrop YF-17 Cobra est la grande exception. Il a perdu – et pourtant….
Il y a les gros avions, et puis il y avait le Mriya. Se tenir sous un Boeing 747, c'est se sentir petit. Se tenir sous un An-225, c'est le 747 qui paraît minuscule. Pendant 33 ans, un seul exemplaire de cette machine a existé : un géant soviétique à six moteurs conçu pour un seul avion….
Share this story In the spring of 1946, in a factory near Pisa that Allied bombers had flattened only months before, an engineer wheeled out a strange little machine — a step-through scooter with a rounded steel body and a small engine tucked by the rear wheel. Enrico...
Share this story Sydney has a new way to reach Asia, and it comes wearing a splash of Malaysian batik on its tail. From 1 July 2026, Batik Air Malaysia flies a daily Airbus A330 between Kuala Lumpur and Sydney — the airline’s fourth city in Australia and a fresh shot...
Share this story In the desert of far-western China, a passing satellite caught something Beijing would much rather keep in the shadows: two enormous stealth flying wings, sitting in the open on a remote airfield — the larger of them nearly as wide as an American B-2...
Share this story A number from a Chinese laboratory has been making the rounds, and it is a striking one: 95 percent. That, according to a computer simulation, is how often a Chengdu J-20 beat an American F-22 Raptor in a fight north of Taiwan. Read a little closer,...
Share this story In March 2026, a silver jet with a wickedly swept wing thundered down a runway near Houston and hauled itself into the Texas sky. It was a North American F-100 Super Sabre — one of only two left flying anywhere on earth — and its return is a good...
Share this story In the late 1930s, Bell Aircraft set out to build a fighter so ambitious that it needed gunners riding inside the engines. The result, the Bell YFM-1 Airacuda, was sleek, futuristic, bristling with cannon — and one of the most gloriously misguided...
Share this story Long before anyone talked about “loyal wingman” drones flying off crewed jets, the Soviet Union built the real thing: a flying aircraft carrier. A single giant bomber would haul as many as five fighters into the sky, cut them loose in mid-air — and,...
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