Share this story Twelve Strike Eagles set off across the Atlantic on Saturday, 3 October 2026, heading home to North Carolina after a deployment to the Middle East. Two of them ended the day in County Clare. One of the US Air Force F-15Es developed a fuel problem over...
Share this story A week ago it was the glitch that froze the Boeing 737 MAX 10’s certification. On Friday, 2 October 2026, the Federal Aviation Administration decided it was not a safety problem after all. A panel of FAA safety experts concluded that a software...
Share this story The target flies faster than the hunter. That is the problem Ukraine’s newest interceptor drone was built to solve, and according to its maker it has now solved it twice. On 3 October 2026, Ukrainian company SkyFall told Militarnyi that its...
Share this story The Air Serbia jet was doing everything right. It had landed at Paris Charles de Gaulle on the evening of Friday, 2 October 2026, and was standing still on the apron, waiting for instructions from air traffic control. Then an easyJet Airbus taxied...
Share this story For almost three years they were trainers with nothing to fire. On the evening of 2 October 2026, Poland’s Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz announced that the country’s FA-50GF light fighters had finally entered combat duty,...
Share this story Air Chief Marshal A.P. Singh did not use his farewell press conference to celebrate. With four weeks left before he retires, the head of the Indian Air Force sat down in New Delhi on 3 October 2026 and laid out, in unusually plain words, how far his...
Share this story It was meant to be a routine night run: a patient, a family member and a four-person medical crew, flying from Bermuda to Boston in a small twin-engine jet. Shortly after midnight on Saturday, 3 October 2026, the Gulfstream G100 air ambulance lifted...
Share this story Nobody was at the controls, and nobody was meant to be. On 3 October 2026, a grey, shovel-nosed jet registered N444LX rolled out at Mojave Air and Space Port in California, took off, flew, and landed again entirely on its own. Northrop Grumman’s...
Share this story On 8 June 2011, Gary Sinise strapped into the back seat of a two-seat U-2 at Beale Air Force Base in California, sealed inside a pressure suit, and climbed to 70,000 feet. Down below, America knew him as Lieutenant Dan, the bitter, legless veteran of...
Share this story Kazakhstan’s second Airbus A400M has its paint on. Airbus released photographs on 1 October of the airlifter at its final assembly line in Seville, Spain, finished in a glossy grey scheme with “Kazakhstan Air Force” on the forward...
Share this story KLM’s long-haul future touched down at Schiphol on Friday afternoon, 2 October. Airbus A350-900 PH-ZNA, named “De Nachtwacht” after Rembrandt’s Night Watch, landed in Amsterdam after a delivery flight from Toulouse, the first...
Share this story Tankers, airlifters and airborne radar aircraft are big, slow and impossible to hide. They are also, increasingly, the targets that very-long-range air-to-air missiles are built to kill. On 1 October the US Air Force moved to give them a better chance...
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