Share this story For four months, the job of guarding NATO’s eastern edge over the Black Sea fell to a handful of British fighters sitting at cockpit readiness in Romania. Last week, they handed the watch to Spain and went home. On July 31, 2026, Royal Air Force...
Share this story For thirty years, a JDAM was a dumb bomb with a brain bolted on: cheap, accurate, and useful only if you flew almost directly over the target. The Air Force just bought a version that can hit something more than 300 miles away. On August 5, 2026, the...
Share this story Somewhere over the Indian Ocean last week, a Boeing 777 Freighter was doing something faintly absurd: flying a set of engine parts almost 10,000 nautical miles, nonstop, because a single airliner on the other side of the planet could not fly without...
Share this story Every two years, the empty skies over Australia’s Top End fill with the noise of the largest air-combat exercise in the Southern Hemisphere. This year, for the first time, some of those fighters wore Japanese and Indonesian markings. Exercise...
Share this story For about ninety seconds on Tuesday afternoon, the most protected passenger in the world and a planeload of holidaymakers bound for Florida were sharing a narrow slice of Washington sky that the rules say they never should have. On August 4, 2026,...
Share this story A U.S. Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II was built to kill tanks. Late last month it was flying cover for something far more valuable than any tank column: a submarine carrying enough firepower to end a war. On July 28, 2026, the Navy photographed one of...
Share this story Saudi Arabia’s glossy new airline has just made its boldest move yet. On 4 August 2026, Riyadh Air flew its first service to Mumbai — a daily Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner between the Saudi capital and India’s financial heart, and the...
Share this story For the first time, a Boeing 737 MAX wears the colours of Tajikistan. On 3 August 2026, Somon Air rolled a brand-new 737-8 onto the apron at Dushanbe International Airport — the first aircraft of its type ever to join a Tajik fleet, and the...
Share this story Sicily just became the latest front in Europe’s low-cost air war. On August 1, 2026, Wizz Air based its first aircraft at Palermo’s Falcone Borsellino Airport, and two days later threw a launch party with the mayor and a planeload of...
Share this story It was never glamorous. It never dropped a bomb, never dogfought, never broke the sound barrier. But for 32 years the T-1A Jayhawk did the quiet, essential job of turning student pilots into the people who fly America’s tankers and transports...
Share this story Heathrow has not laid a single metre of new runway. It has not even secured permission to build one. And yet, as of a regulator’s ruling on July 29, 2026, passengers are now on the hook for the bill.The UK Civil Aviation Authority has cleared...
Share this story Just after midnight on August 1, 2026, an Airbus A350-900 lifted off from Taipei and pointed its nose at Central Europe. In the left-hand seat sat K.W. Chang — not a rostered captain, but the chairman of the airline, flying his own inaugural....
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