Share this story There are two numbers no airline pilot wants to say on the radio in the same breath: one landing gear leg that will not come down, and minutes of fuel left. On Sunday evening, 25 October, the crew of United Airlines flight 1854 dealt with both over...
Share this story On the road between St. Louis and Mascoutah, Illinois, drivers recently passed something that looked like a manta ray in a white bedsheet. It was the US Navy’s second MQ-25A Stingray, wings folded and fuselage shrink-wrapped, riding a flatbed...
Share this story Europe’s best-funded defence start-up has decided the drone war needs a cheaper bullet. On Monday 26 October in Berlin, Helsing unveiled Contra, an AI-controlled air defence system, together with two interceptors of its own: the jet-powered AD-1...
Share this story The US Air Force has a tanker problem, and a Washington think tank has just put a price on fixing it. In a report released on 27 October, the Hudson Institute argues that the Air Force should stop buying the KC-46A Pegasus sooner than planned and...
Share this story The A-10 Thunderbolt II was built to find tanks, not boaters. But in late April 2026, two Warthogs training over central Florida turned their night vision goggles and targeting pods on Lake Arbuckle and helped deputies find a 73-year-old man who had...
Share this story Ukraine’s Air Force is planning to rebuild itself around Western-style aviation wings and multi-type air bases. Yurii Ihnat, head of the Communications Department at Air Force Command, laid out the plan in an interview on RBC-Ukraine’s...
Share this story Blackbeard has a new ride. On Monday, 26 October 2026, Castelion announced that it has received a contract modification under its existing work with the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to begin integrating its Blackbeard hypersonic weapon on the...
Share this story More than three in four European airline pilots say they have nodded off at the controls at least once in the past month. That is the headline finding of a new report published on 26 October 2026 by the European Cockpit Association (ECA), the...
Share this story For more than three hours on Monday afternoon, a Royal Air Force A400M Atlas drew slow, ever-wider circles in the sky over Warminster. The four-engine transport had taken off from MOD Boscombe Down near Amesbury just before 2pm on 26 October 2026, and...
Share this story A Turkish F-16 has released a 2,000 lb bomb that flew itself to its target on a pair of pop-out wings. On 26 October 2026, ASELSAN announced that its KGK-84 winged guidance kit had completed its first qualification range firing from an F-16 at the...
Share this story Helicopters own the piers of Lower Manhattan. On Monday morning, 26 October 2026, a small yellow airplane with ordinary fixed wings joined them. Electra flew its hybrid-electric EL2 demonstrator into Downtown Skyport, the heliport on the East River,...
Share this story Three and a half years ago, the US Air Force told Congress it would not buy the AGM-183A Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon. On 26 October 2026 it announced that it had done exactly that. The Department of the Air Force has handed Lockheed Martin a...
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