Share this story America’s transport secretary has a new worry, and it is not a crash. It is a calendar. Speaking in Washington on 30 September, Sean Duffy said the United States must certify new airliners faster or risk losing the next generation of aviation to...
Share this story The US Air Force’s newest Eagle has a blind spot, and the service has just admitted it in writing. On 29 September the F-15 programme office at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base published a sources-sought notice asking industry for a missile...
Share this story The Pentagon is getting a new four-star command, and its weapons don’t need pilots. Speaking to around 600 junior officers and senior NCOs at Marine Corps Base Quantico on 30 September, Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the Autonomous Warfare...
Share this story Somewhere in the second-hand widebody market, a Boeing 777-200ER that spent its career hauling passengers between Auckland and the rest of the world has just been bought by a hypersonics company. It is going to Mojave. It is going to have a hypersonic...
Share this story It has no fuselage, no fin and no tailplane, and it looks like something from the 1980s rather than 1945. The Horten Ho 229 is one of the most photographed German aircraft of the Second World War, and it is usually described as the world’s first...
Share this story The man who buys the US Air Force’s fighters has a simple view of what matters most right now: factories. Speaking at the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies on 28 September 2026, Brig. Gen. Timothy Helfrich said the F-47 sixth-generation...
Share this story The Pentagon has been shooting missiles faster than it can buy them, and it has decided to fix that with a very large cheque. On 28 September 2026, RTX’s Raytheon announced a multiyear contract worth up to $20.7 billion for the AIM-120 AMRAAM,...
Share this story Update, 30 September 2026, afternoonThe picture has changed sharply since this story was first published. According to Israeli officials, the first officer is now under investigation on suspicion of trying to crash the aircraft. The captain suffered...
Share this story Boeing had a good Tuesday. A very good Tuesday. On 29 September 2026 the Pentagon handed the company the Navy’s sixth-generation F/A-XX fighter, and on the very same day the Department of the Air Force quietly signed for 22 more F-15EX Eagle II...
Share this story At 9:14 on the morning of 12 November 2001, American Airlines Flight 587 lifted off from New York’s John F. Kennedy airport bound for Santo Domingo. Many of the 251 passengers were Dominican New Yorkers going home. About 105 seconds later the...
Share this story Nobody climbs into a Eurofighter Typhoon on their first day in uniform. Between a cadet’s first solo and their first sortie in a frontline fighter sits a ladder of aircraft, each one faster, heavier and less forgiving than the last. This week...
Share this story Every so often, a white Boeing 747 with a hump on its back turns up at a regional airport, flies a few approaches and leaves. Local TV stations ask what it was. Most recently, News On 6 asked that question in Tulsa at the end of September. The answer...
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