Share this story Air Canada launched Vancouver to Singapore in April 2024 with the language airlines use when they mean it: strategic expansion, preferred North American gateway to Asia, the only nonstop between the two countries. Two years and nine months later, it...
Share this story Qantas has been trying to fly from Sydney to New York without stopping for roughly as long as the route has existed. On Wednesday it put a date on it: mid-2028. The airline confirmed that Sydney to New York will be the second route in Project Sunrise,...
Share this story Four guidons were rolled and cased at Davis-Monthan on Friday. That is how the Air Force ends things: a flag wound around its staff, slid into a canvas sleeve, and a unit that existed on Thursday does not exist on Saturday. The 355th Operations Group,...
Share this story There is a photograph from Kangerlussuaq on 16 September that does more work than any communiqué. Two Danish F-35As, four American F-16s and two Canadian CF-18s, parked together on a single strip of asphalt at the head of a Greenland fjord. The Royal...
Share this story America has nineteen B-2 Spirits and fewer than 190 F-22 Raptors. Both are irreplaceable, both are out of production, and for several months this year the ability to keep them flying depended on one piece of welded steel in Utah that had caught fire....
Share this story The pilot described it as the jet just stopping in mid-air. On 3 December 2025 a Thunderbirds F-16 was flying loops and rolls over the California desert. The pilot, an instructor with nearly 1,400 hours, had peeled off from the delta formation during...
Share this story Australia has a surveillance problem that is essentially arithmetic. The area it is expected to watch is vast, the number of aircraft it can afford is not, and the distances mean an aircraft spends much of its life transiting rather than looking. On...
Share this story For six months the accounting was guesswork, satellite imagery and leaks. Last week the United States government published its own figures, twice. On 14 September the Pentagon’s Lead Inspector General delivered its first quarterly report to Congress...
Share this story There are two aircraft in the world that can pick up something genuinely enormous and fly it a very long way. One is Ukrainian and first flew in 1982. The other is American and stopped being built in 2015. Europe owns almost none of either, and the...
Share this story It is one aeroplane. That is the first thing to say, because the numbers here are small and the meaning is not. On Tuesday the British Ministry of Defence announced that a single Royal Air Force Voyager tanker will deploy to help Saudi Arabia defend...
Share this story The golf course at Spangdahlem Air Base sits directly under the approach to Runway 04. On Tuesday afternoon it became a crash site. At roughly half past two local time, a F-16 Fighting Falcon belonging to the base resident 52nd Fighter Wing came down...
Share this story A crate of broken fighter parts is the least glamorous object in military aviation. Nobody guards it the way they guard a jet. It goes in a container, on a commercial aircraft, and turns up at a repair shop on the other side of the world. That is how...
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