Share this story Somewhere on the upper surface of every B-2 Spirit is a small round window that has nothing to do with the crew. Behind it sits a telescope that looks for stars. While the bomber flies, that system measures the angles to known stars and uses them to...
Share this story On the morning of 13 April 2019, the widest aircraft ever built rolled down the runway at Mojave in California, lifted two fuselages and six engines off the ground, and flew for two and a half hours. Its wings stretched 385 feet from tip to tip, wider...
Share this story A radar-guided missile announces itself. The radar that guides it lights up the target aircraft, and a radar warning receiver hears it. A heat-seeking missile gives no such courtesy. It homes passively on the heat of an engine, and the first sign of...
Share this story Squeeze the trigger in an F-16 and, a fraction of a second later, six barrels just behind the cockpit are spinning, and 20mm shells are leaving the aircraft at a rate of around 100 per second. The weapon is the M61 Vulcan, and for more than 65 years...
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 On Tuesday, AnimaWings pulled six of its eight aircraft out of service. On Wednesday, it went to court. The Romanian airline filed for insolvency with the Bucharest Tribunal on 30 September 2026, one day after grounding its entire fleet of Airbus...
Share this story On 30 September 2026 the European Union Aviation Safety Agency published a two-page document that will quietly rearrange a lot of flight plans. It is called CZIB-2026-09, its subject line is simply Airspace of Saudi Arabia, and it tells European...
Share this story WestJet was built on the Boeing 737-700. On 28 September 2026 it started getting rid of them, and it did so in the same week the aeroplane meant to replace them lost its certification date. The mechanism is an agreement with FTAI Aviation covering 27...
Share this story Three point two kilometres of water sit on top of the only object that can explain what happened to K2 Airways Flight 1732. The Pakistan Navy says it has found it. The announcement came on 29 and 30 September 2026, almost three months after the Boeing...
Share this story Eight of the ten aeroplanes Ethiopian Airlines just bought do not exist yet. That is the interesting part. On 30 September 2026 Boeing and Ethiopian Airlines announced an order for ten freighters: two 777Fs, the twin-engine workhorse that has hauled...
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 Somewhere in the twenty minutes before your flight pushed back, one of the pilots typed a number into a keypad on the centre console. It was probably two or three digits. It took about four seconds. That number decided how fast you are about to fly,...
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