Share this story Two years ago the last of them flew into the Arizona desert. Crews delivering the jets to the boneyard signed their names on the nose-gear doors and walked away. Now the US Air Force is asking who could make some of them fly again. On 7 October 2026 a...
Share this story Somewhere over Lebanon, a few minutes from Damascus, seven Israeli Phantoms are flying low under a grey lid of cloud. The weather was fair when they left Israel. Over the Syrian border it has closed in, with turbulence shaking the jets and the ground...
Share this story Eight years ago almost to the day, a Category 5 hurricane walked across Tyndall Air Force Base and tore the roofs off hangars with F-22 Raptors still inside. This week the Air Force is not waiting to find out whether history repeats. Since Thursday, 8...
Share this story Every time a drone shuts an airport, the same explanation appears within hours: the things are simply too small for radar to see. It is a tidy story. It is also wrong, and the measurement literature has been saying so for a decade. A DJI Phantom 3 and...
Share this story On 31 December 2025 a deadline arrived that had been twenty years in the making. From that date, under European law, no aircraft registered in the EU was allowed to carry a halon portable fire extinguisher in its cabin. Large parts of the fleet missed...
Share this story At Naval Air Station Whiting Field in Florida, a winging ceremony builds to one moment: family members step forward and pin a small gold badge on the chest of a newly graduated naval aviator. Years of flight training come down to that. In April 2026,...
Share this story Every fighter engine that comes out of the repair shop has to prove itself before it goes back into a jet. That means running it at full power, afterburner included, for as long as the technicians need to check it. Do that in the open, next to a base...
Share this story It looked like the future: a long, polished needle of a fuselage, four jet engines tucked into two slim nacelles, and a tandem bubble canopy perched on top. On 2 April 1947, the Convair XB-46 took off from San Diego and flew for 90 minutes to Muroc...
Share this story On 7 July 1962, Georgy Mosolov flew a sleek Soviet delta-winged jet down a measured course twice, once in each direction, and averaged 2,681 kilometres per hour. That made it the fastest aircraft in the world. The paperwork sent to the Fédération...
Share this story In January 1956, Kelly Johnson walked into the Pentagon with an offer the Air Force could not refuse. The man who had just built the U-2 proposed a successor that would cruise at Mach 2.5 and nearly 100,000 feet, and he promised the first of two...
Share this story The part cost about 1.2 million won to make, roughly 900 US dollars. By the time it reached a South Korean KF-16, it was being billed as a genuine American component at around 100 million won. According to South Korean prosecutors, that markup ran for...
Share this story Japan’s next jet trainer may come with an instructor who is not in the cockpit at all. In an investor presentation dated 6 October 2026, Kawasaki Heavy Industries showed a concept for a next-generation trainer aircraft, built around an AI...
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