Share this story General Atomics has a habit of showing you the aeroplane only once it is already flying. So when the company volunteered, in a statement to TWZ published on 30 October, that it is building a large flying wing called NextGen, the detail worth reading...
Share this story The light was already going on Thursday afternoon when a twin-rotor shape lifted away from the airfield at Brčko, in the flat farmland where Bosnia and Herzegovina runs up against the river Sava. Phone cameras on the ground caught what happened...
Share this story Days after it was wheeled out of the factory, the first jet built for Italy’s new-generation Frecce Tricolori has left the ground. The M-346 in the team’s new Pininfarina livery made its maiden flight from Leonardo’s airfield at...
Share this story After months of frosty politics between Warsaw and Kyiv, the first concrete sign of a thaw comes with a pair of Soviet-designed fighters. Poland has decided to hand two more MiG-29 Fulcrums to Ukraine, a senior Polish defence official told the...
Share this story Two grey jets with the yellow-and-blue RMAF roundel on their intakes rolled to a stop at Labuan Air Base on Friday, 30 October 2026. They had flown down from Sacheon in South Korea, where Korea Aerospace Industries builds them, and they are the first...
Share this story Concorde never floated gently onto a runway. It arrived nose-high, droop nose lowered so the pilots could see over it, touching down at around 170 mph at a far steeper angle of attack than any conventional airliner would use. Above that pale triangle,...
Share this story At 09:30 on 15 August 1942, a tanker that had been torpedoed, bombed and hit by a crashing dive bomber crept into Grand Harbour, Valletta. She had a broken back, her decks were almost awash, and two destroyers were lashed to her sides to hold her up....
Share this story At eight o’clock on the morning of 20 May 1941, the sky over western Crete filled with Junkers Ju 52 transports flying low and slow over the olive groves. Out of their doors tumbled the Fallschirmjäger, Germany’s elite paratroopers,...
Share this story This summer, a grey helicopter with no crew on board lifted off from Michael Army Airfield at Dugway Proving Ground in the Utah desert. Not long before, aircraft like it were being packed off to the boneyard in Arizona. Now it flies for the US Army as...
Share this story On the afternoon of 4 December 1950, a Navy fighter pilot looked down at a burning wreck on a frozen North Korean mountainside and made a decision his own training told him not to make. His wingman was alive, trapped in the cockpit, and smoke was...
Share this story At 12:32 on 7 April 1945, a lookout on the bridge of the battleship Yamato spotted the first wave of American carrier aircraft. Less than two hours later the largest battleship ever built rolled over and blew up, sending a mushroom cloud thousands of...
Share this story On the afternoon of 14 November 1965, the clearing called LZ X-Ray was the most dangerous patch of ground in South Vietnam. North Vietnamese machine guns covered it from the slopes of the Chu Pong massif. The medical evacuation helicopters would not...
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