Share this story On 24 October 1958, a slim silver delta with tricolour roundels pushed past Mach 2 in level flight, reaching Mach 2.2. No Western European aircraft had done it before. Nine years later, the same design would win one of the most decisive air campaigns...
Share this story Romania has lost one airline to the courts this month already. On Thursday, 22 October 2026, a second one walked into the courthouse, this time insisting it would walk out again.Dan Air, the Bucharest-based carrier that flies a small fleet of Airbus...
Share this story A carrier fighter is only as good as the deck it lands on, and India has bought a fighter designed for somebody else’s deck. Now the Indian Navy has started finding out exactly what that means.Defence sources told the news agency ANI, as...
Share this story For 44 years the Frecce Tricolori have painted the Italian sky from the cockpit of a single-engined Aermacchi. Last week, at Leonardo’s plant at Venegono, near Varese, their successor rolled into daylight: the first M-346 built for Italy’s...
Share this story For twelve days in October, the French military rehearsed exactly one scenario in the roadstead of Toulon: how to protect France’s largest naval base. Somewhere in the middle of that rehearsal, someone else’s drones came to watch. On...
Share this story The steps of Namo Ghat were packed before the first engine noise rolled down the river. On Thursday 22 October 2026, thousands of spectators lined the Ganga from Namo Ghat to Assi Ghat as the Indian Air Force opened “Wings Over Ganges”...
Share this story Abu Dhabi, Tuesday 20 October 2026. Between a tour of Edge Group factories and a round of energy deals, France and the United Arab Emirates signed an intergovernmental agreement on cooperation on the Rafale F5 standard — the next great leap of...
Share this story On the night of 17 April 1973, fourteen small Dassault Falcon 20 jets took off from Memphis carrying 186 packages to 25 American cities. It was the first night of Federal Express. The man behind it, Frederick W. Smith, had learned to lead not in...
Share this story On the morning of 30 November 1934, a small blue-and-red Caudron racer came in to land at Guyancourt, just outside Versailles. It lost speed, dropped onto the treetops of the woods beyond the field and broke apart. The pilot, reached first by fellow...
Share this story At 10:43 on 7 December 1936, a radio operator somewhere over the South Atlantic tapped out a short line of Morse from the flying boat Croix-du-Sud: “Coupons moteur arrière droit” – cutting the rear starboard engine. Then the...
Share this story On 24 November 1955 a high-winged prototype registered PH-NIV took to the air for the first time. It had two Rolls-Royce Dart turboprops, a pressurised cabin and an airframe in which much of the metal was glued together rather than riveted. According...
Share this story Melun-Villaroche, 28 September 1952. Kostia Rozanoff, Dassault’s chief test pilot, lifts a silver prototype off the runway and stays aloft for 25 minutes. In level flight the new jet touches Mach 0.92, comfortably beyond what its designers had...
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