Share this story The US Navy has changed its mind about what the next batch of Growler jamming pods should be. On Friday 13 November 2026, the Pentagon’s daily contract announcement listed a $42,121,481 modification for Raytheon that converts low-rate initial...
Share this story For nine months, China’s first electric airliner demonstrator had been flying with nobody on board. On Saturday 14 November 2026, that changed. The COMAC CE-25A took off from Binzhou in Shandong province with two pilots and a flight test...
Share this story On 17 April 2018, fan blade number 13 broke out of the left engine of a Boeing 737-700 over Pennsylvania. The engine did exactly what it had been designed and certified to do: the fan case caught the blade. By the letter of the regulation, the failure...
Share this story A routine short hop from Amsterdam ended with a moment that was caught on two live airport cameras. On the morning of Thursday 12 November 2026, British Airways flight BA431, an Airbus A321neo registered G-TNEB, bounced on landing on runway 27L at...
Share this story In February 1962, Mao Zedong received an unexpected letter from Nikita Khrushchev. Two years after the Sino-Soviet split had led Moscow to withdraw its advisers from China, the Soviet leader was offering Beijing the technology for the most modern...
Share this story In 1964, China’s aircraft designers faced a problem they could not buy their way out of. The country’s best fighter, the J-7, a home-built copy of the MiG-21, lacked the range and altitude performance to catch high-flying bombers and...
Share this story Somewhere over West Pakistan in December 1971, a missile fired by a Pakistani fighter slammed into the tail of an Indian Sukhoi Su-7. The blast carried away half the rudder and wrecked the elevators, ailerons and flaps. Wing Commander H.S. Mangat,...
Share this story Over the airfield at Jodhpur on 27 December 2019, five grey jets with wings swept back came over in an arrowhead, flanked by Su-30MKIs. When they landed, the Indian Air Force had retired its last MiG-27, and with it its last swing-wing jet. In India...
Share this story The first Tejas Mk1A was supposed to reach the Indian Air Force in February 2024. Almost three years later, the IAF may finally get one in January 2027, just weeks before India’s biggest air show opens in Bengaluru. That is the claim of an...
Share this story “Why am I seeing sky all of a sudden?” That was the thought in the co-pilot’s head, he later told investigators, a second or two after his captain called “go around” on a bounced landing at London Heathrow. By then the...
Share this story Ask a hundred passengers what a jet engine is designed to do when it swallows a large bird, and ninety-nine will say: keep running. It is a reasonable assumption. It is also wrong, and the regulation says so in plain English. Under 14 CFR 33.76, the...
Share this story Shortly before sunset on 25 May 2003, a Boeing 727 began to move at Quatro de Fevereiro Airport in Luanda, Angola. There was no call to the tower. It manoeuvred erratically, entered a runway without clearance and, with its lights off and its...
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