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 Shortly after lunchtime on Monday, 5 October 2026, an F-35A wearing the Iron Cross of the German Air Force touched down at Ebbing Air National Guard Base in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and taxied under a ceremonial water arch. The flight from Lockheed...
Share this story The jet trainer most famous for teaching pilots to fly fast is learning a new trade: hunting drones. Czech manufacturer Aero Vodochody and Thales Belgium announced on 5 October 2026 that they have signed a memorandum of understanding to develop the...
Share this story The gate agent turns the power bank over in her hand, looking for a number. The passenger already knows the one printed on the case in the largest type: 20,000 mAh. It is the number the shop advertised, the number on the box, the number in the Amazon...
Share this story Russia’s newest attack drones are fast enough to outrun most of the interceptor drones Ukraine sends up against them. On Monday, 5 October 2026, the Ukrainian Air Force said it had found an answer that does not need to fly at all: automated...
Share this story After a year of delays, America’s first scramjet-powered strike weapon has finally left an aircraft. The US Air Force confirmed on 5 October 2026 that the Royal Australian Air Force has released a Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile, or HACM,...
Share this story About half an hour after leaving Heathrow on Monday, 5 October 2026, British Airways flight BA295 to Chicago was cruising at around 36,000 feet over the Irish Sea when the oxygen masks dropped. Minutes later the Boeing 777 was at 9,000 feet, squawking...
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 Eighty-one. That is how many American aircraft have now been destroyed, lost or damaged in the war with Iran, according to an updated tally from the Congressional Research Service, Congress’s in-house think tank. The report was revised on 5...
Share this story A two-seat F-16 in desert camouflage climbed away from Lockheed Martin’s plant in Greenville, South Carolina, on Tuesday, 6 October 2026, carrying red Moroccan roundels on its wings. It was the first flight of the first F-16 Block 72 ever built,...
Share this story In September 1969, three Lockheed engineers put their names to a report with a dry title: A Study of Very Large Nuclear-Powered Aircraft in a Potential Mission Application. Inside was one of the largest flying machines ever drawn. Its wings would have...
Share this story Ask a pilot how fast the aircraft is going and you may get a question back: which speed do you mean? The cockpit of a jet can show four or five different numbers that all claim to be its speed, and at cruising altitude they can differ by hundreds of...
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