Share this story Most heads of government inspect their air force from a podium, or at most from the tarmac. On August 14, 2026, Thailand’s prime minister planned to do it from the cockpit. Anutin Charnvirakul was scheduled to fly in a Royal Thai Air Force F-16...
Share this story Most cargo aircraft need three things the battlefield rarely offers: a runway, a pilot, and a ground crew to load them. Elroy Air’s Chaparral needs none of them. On August 12, 2026, the California company demonstrated new unattended delivery...
Share this story For eight months, one of American Airlines’ biggest jets sat in a Hong Kong hangar with its interior torn out. On August 13, 2026, it flew home to Dallas wearing something the airline has been promising for years: a proper business-class suite...
Share this story The Airbus A350 was built to cross oceans. It can fly seventeen hours nonstop, carry a few hundred people from Doha to Auckland, and burn through time zones like a paper napkin. On August 12 and 13, 2026, Qatar Airways used one to fly eighty miles....
Share this story On the ground it gleamed like cutlery. Long, thin and unpainted, its polished skin caught the Filton light, and its shape earned it a nickname that stuck for life: the Flaming Pencil. The Bristol 188 was Britain’s bold, doomed attempt to fly...
Share this story It looks like a paper dart that a child drew and an engineer took seriously. A long needle nose, a huge triangular wing, spindly stalk-like landing gear, and a single small jet perched at the base of the fin. The Handley Page HP.115 was one of the...
Share this story Watch a K-MAX work a mountainside and something looks wrong. Two rotor masts lean apart in a shallow V, their blades slicing through each other’s arc, and yet nothing collides. There is no tail rotor at all. This is the Kaman K-MAX, a...
Share this story A wall of orange climbs a Greek hillside, and out of the smoke drops a white-and-blue jet skimming the sea. It touches the waves, drinks twelve tonnes of water in fourteen seconds, hauls itself back into the sky and unloads the lot onto the flames....
Share this story They had gone to a ballgame. A father and his adult son, both private pilots, flew into St. Louis to watch baseball, then climbed back into their Beechcraft Baron for the two-hour hop home to Arkansas. It was late, it was dark, and thunderstorms were...
Share this story It is the sound every passenger dreads and every pilot trains for: a bang, a shudder, and flames licking back from the engine seconds after the wheels leave the runway. On the morning of August 10, 2026, the people aboard American Airlines Flight 1760...
Share this story For years, Boeing quietly bankrolled three of the most interesting bets in aviation: a self-flying air taxi, a battle-tested reconnaissance drone, and the software to keep crowded skies from turning into chaos. On August 10, 2026, it handed all three...
Share this story A short domestic hop between Corpus Christi and Dallas/Fort Worth is about as routine as flying gets. But one American Airlines flight this month quietly made history — it was the first commercial passenger service in the United States powered...
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