Share this story At 05:30 on 25 October 1983, the first Army Rangers stepped out of a Hercules over the south-western tip of Grenada. They jumped from about 500 feet, low enough to stay under the anti-aircraft fire. Below them lay a half-finished runway, blocked with...
Share this story Shortly after noon on Saturday, 24 October 2026, a small plane over Palm Beach, Florida, picked up an unwanted escort. A NORAD F-16 intercepted the general aviation aircraft at about 12:20 p.m. local time after it flew into the FAA Temporary Flight...
Share this story Boeing has not finished a 777 Freighter in nearly two months. Not because of a strike, an engine shortage or a regulator. According to a Reuters exclusive published late on 23 October 2026, the line in Everett, Washington, stopped because a small...
Share this story On 14 April 1956, three silver jets climbed out of Thule, Greenland, and turned towards the top of the world. Their pilots were heading for Noril’sk, a closed Soviet nickel-mining city 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Two air refuellings...
Share this story Just before four o’clock on the afternoon of 23 June 1952, US Navy Skyraiders tipped into their dives over the Yalu River. Below them sat the Sui-ho Dam, one of the biggest hydroelectric plants on earth. Across the river, less than 40 miles...
Share this story For more than three decades, every Predator, Reaper and Gray Eagle that General Atomics sold was built by General Atomics. On Friday the company broke that habit for its most important new aircraft. The fuselage of the FQ-42 Vengeance, the US Air...
Share this story You have just finished your drink, the seat backs are coming up and suddenly the cabin goes dark. No, the airline is not trying to set a romantic mood or save electricity. When crews dim the cabin lights for takeoff and landing, they are preparing...
Share this story Some days the hardest part of flight training is the landing. On Thursday evening, 22 October 2026, two U.S. Air Force pilots in a T-6A Texan II decided, with expert advice from the ground, that the safest way to finish their flight was not to land at...
Share this story Bombers are supposed to be the ones being hunted. The U.S. Air Force is now asking, in writing, whether they could do some of the hunting.The service’s long-term fighter force structure report, sent to Congress last week and first reported by...
Share this story For twenty years the F-35 has been bought the way most people buy groceries: one lot at a time, haggling at the checkout. On Thursday, 22 October 2026, the Pentagon and Lockheed Martin announced they want to switch to a subscription.The two sides...
Share this story The U.S. Air Force has put a number on what it needs to fight: 1,509 combat-coded fighters by 2035. That is the headline of a new fighter force structure report the service sent to Congress on 16 October 2026, and it is a lot more jets than the USAF...
Share this story At about 10:40 p.m. on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, a French Mirage 2000D on its way home to Nancy-Ochey vanished from radar over the wooded hills of Meurthe-et-Moselle. Residents of Rogéville, north-west of Nancy, heard a detonation that shook their...
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