Share this story A B-52H Stratofortress has been photographed in flight over California carrying two inert examples of the AGM-181 Long-Range Standoff (LRSO) missile — the nuclear-armed weapon system designed to replace the United States’ aging AGM-86 Air...
Share this story At 7:33 in the morning on June 10, 1990, British Airways Captain Tim Lancaster was sitting in his seat at 17,300 feet over Oxfordshire when his windscreen exploded outward — and he went with it. What followed in the next twenty minutes is one of the...
Share this story What appears to be the United States’ most secretive unmanned aircraft — the classified Northrop Grumman RQ-180 — was photographed over the city of Larissa, Greece on March 18, 2026, providing what analysts are calling the clearest public...
Share this story On February 1, 1943, a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress flew home from Tunisia with its tail section barely attached — connected to the rest of the plane by little more than a few metal longerons and a strip of aluminum skin. The ten men inside...
Share this story Aviation photographer Jarod Hamilton captured the sharpest images yet of an F-22A Raptor flying with both stealthy external fuel tanks and specialised sensor pods at Edwards Air Force Base on March 21, 2026 — providing the clearest look to date at a...
Share this story On February 9, 1943, a fully fueled American military cargo aircraft took off from Florida with a crew of eight — and landed in Mexico four and a half hours later with a crew of zero. No hijacking. No remote control. Just the most incredible solo...
Share this story Imagine falling out of an airplane at 15,000 feet with no parachute. Now imagine landing back inside it. For one Royal Flying Corps gunner in 1918, this wasn’t a nightmare — it was just another Tuesday. Aviation has always been a realm where the...
Share this story South Korea reached a landmark milestone on March 25, 2026, when the first series-production KF-21 Boramae fighter jet rolled out of the Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) factory in Sacheon under its own power — marking the birth of a new chapter in...
Condividi questa storia Nell'aprile del 1942, il pilota da caccia sovietico Alexey Maresyev fu abbattuto dietro le linee nemiche sopra le foreste dell'oblast' di Novgorod. Ciò che seguì fu una delle storie più straordinarie – e in gran parte inedite – di resistenza umana nella storia dell'aviazione...
Share this story MiGFlug Aviation & Defence Monday, 02 March 2026 · Developing Story Breaking — Operation Epic Fury · Day 3 Three U.S. F-15Es Shot Down in Friendly Fire Over Kuwait — as the Middle East Erupts Six American airmen ejected into the Kuwaiti night...
Boeing si aggiudica il contratto NGAD per l'F-47: una nuova era per la potenza aerea. Venerdì scorso, il presidente Trump ha sganciato una bomba che ha avuto ripercussioni nel mondo militare-industriale, in senso figurato, ovviamente! Boeing è ufficialmente incaricata della progettazione e produzione dell'F-47, pubblicizzato come il...
Per cominciare: cos'è la barriera del suono? La "barriera del suono" si riferisce al punto in cui un oggetto viaggia alla velocità del suono, nota anche come Mach 1. Il suono si propaga come onde di pressione attraverso un mezzo come l'aria e la sua velocità dipende da fattori come la temperatura e...
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