Share this story A post doing the rounds on Instagram tells a neat story: Morgan Freeman wanted to be a fighter pilot, gave it up for acting, and then, at 84, finally bought himself a jet. The first part is close to the truth. The last part is off by seven years, and...
Share this story Asked when Indonesia’s Chinese fighters will finally show up, the head of the Indonesian Air Force smiled and gave a two-word answer. “Just wait,” Air Marshal Mohamad Tonny Harjono told Republika on 5 October 2026, on the sidelines...
Share this story India has picked a test pilot to lead its air force through one of its most demanding decades. The government announced on Tuesday, 6 October 2026, that Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit, currently Vice Chief of the Air Staff, will become the next Chief of...
Share this story In the small hours of 10 August 2006, British police arrested around two dozen people. By the time most of the country woke up, hand baggage had effectively been abolished. Passengers at Heathrow were told to carry their documents in a clear plastic...
Share this story At 9:13 on Monday morning, 5 October 2026, air traffic controllers in southern Nigeria lost contact with a Nigerian Air Force ATR 42 flying from Benin City to Lagos. Repeated calls on the radio went unanswered. Hours later, search teams found the...
Share this story A fighter pilot’s own eyes, and even his own radar, only see a small piece of the sky. Somewhere on the ground, a controller in a dark room sees much more. Ground-controlled interception, or GCI, is the system that joins the two: radar stations...
Share this story Today the Indian Air Force flies Rafales, Su-30MKIs and Tejas fighters and is one of the largest air forces in the world. On Thursday it turns 94. Its first combat unit was four fabric-covered biplanes and a handful of young pilots on an airfield...
Share this story Five days after the cockpit attack on flydubai flight FZ1073, the picture of the man accused of carrying it out has turned darker. According to two Israeli officials who spoke to Reuters, the Omani first officer told UAE interrogators that he planned...
Share this story A Cessna Caravan is about as unthreatening as a military aircraft gets: one turboprop engine, fixed landing gear and a cruising speed of well under 200 knots. On Friday, one of them was doing a routine maritime patrol over Scarborough Shoal when a...
Share this story It was around one o’clock on Sunday morning when residents on the edge of Maykop, in Russia’s Republic of Adygea, heard the drone engines. Then came the air defence fire, and then the explosions. By daylight, Ukraine’s Security...
Share this story Most people picture an air ambulance as a helicopter landing on a motorway. But when a patient is hundreds or thousands of kilometres from the hospital they need, or stuck in a foreign country after an accident, the job goes to a jet. Air-ambulance...
Share this story The old cargo plane was down to about 2,500 feet over the Nicaraguan jungle on 5 October 1986, lining up to drop its load, when a teenage Sandinista soldier raised a Soviet-made SA-7 missile launcher to his shoulder and fired. The missile hit the...
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