Share this story A go-around is the one manoeuvre every airline pilot rehearses until it is boring, because when it happens for real it is anything but. Full thrust, nose up, gear and flaps coming in, a new clearance on the radio. It is precisely the moment Boeing has...
Share this story For decades, the Royal Thai Air Force’s F-16s flew exercises, air shows and the occasional scramble. On 24 July 2025 they went to war. As a border dispute with Cambodia exploded into open fighting, Thai F-16s dropped guided bombs on Cambodian...
Share this story Nobody likes reaching for it, but everyone expects it to be there. From 1 October, airBaltic passengers will no longer find a sick bag in the seat pocket in front of them. The Latvian airline, now restructuring under US Chapter 11 bankruptcy...
Share this story The F-16 has seen heavy action against Iranian air defences in Operation Epic Fury. Its existing self-protection gear has coped, but the US Air Force knows that China’s air defences are a different league. So this week it put another $87.4...
Share this story For years, India bought its fighters from Russia and France, and US stealth jets only turned up in Indian skies at air shows. That changes today. Exercise Tarang Shakti 2026 starts at Jodhpur Air Force Station in Rajasthan, and for the first time US...
Share this story Walk onto a US Air Force flight line and ask someone to point you at a Fighting Falcon and you will get a blank look, then a correction. It is a Viper. The Lancer over there is a Bone. The Stratofortress is a BUFF, and nobody has called the A-10 a...
Share this story Search for the Focke-Wulf Ta 183 Huckebein and you will find the same sentence over and over: this was the aircraft that became the MiG-15. The swept wing, the nose intake, the tail carried high on the fin — the Soviets took the drawings home in...
Share this story The US Navy has added $876.4 million to L3Harris’s contract for the Next Generation Jammer Low Band, roughly tripling the size of an award that started at $587.4 million in 2024. The combined value is now about $1.463 billion, and the work runs...
Share this story When Australia confirmed on 22 September that a crate of F-35 parts had ended up in Hong Kong instead of the United States, the official line was that nobody should be especially worried. Two days later, the worry acquired a shape. The consignment...
Share this story On a grey Sunday morning in January, the administrator of NASA stood on a patch of asphalt at Edwards Air Force Base and looked up at a black aeroplane. The fin above him carried two words and three digits: NASA, and 844. It was the ninth stop on...
Share this story The clip everyone shared shows Donald Trump flinching. Two B-1B Lancers came over Joint Base Andrews near the end of the American national anthem, the President ducked, gritted his teeth and lowered his salute to look up, and Xi Jinping, standing next...
Share this story On 1 February 1975, a bare metal F-15A sat on the runway at Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota, chained to a hold-back device, with both engines in full afterburner. When the hold-back let go, the aircraft was airborne in three seconds. Three...
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