Share this story The touchdown looked normal. Then the nose swung left, and a Jet2 Boeing 737-800 rolled off the edge of the runway and onto the grass at Birmingham Airport, while people filming the landing could be heard reacting in disbelief. It happened on Sunday...
Share this story The crew were seconds from touching down at a medical emergency when the cockpit filled with green light. On Saturday evening, 24 October 2026, a rescue helicopter of AAA Alpine Air Ambulance was hit by a laser beam on its final approach to a landing...
Share this story Nigeria’s air force has put a new Turkish drone on its shopping list. On Sunday, 25 October 2026, the Nigerian Air Force published an infographic on its official X account listing 12 TUSAŞ Aksungur unmanned combat aircraft among its...
Share this story Two weeks of allied air combat training began on Monday in the southwest of the Korean Peninsula. South Korea and the United States opened the Freedom Flag exercise on 26 October 2026, a two-week combined air drill that the Republic of Korea Air Force...
Share this story Germany’s fighter question has moved from the chancelleries to the boardrooms. Executives from Airbus are set to sit down with BAE Systems to explore how the European group could join the GCAP fighter programme, the Global Combat Air Programme...
Share this story At 11.22am on Sunday 25 October 2026, a Jetstar Airbus A320 lifted off from Western Sydney International Airport and turned north for the Gold Coast. Flight JQ362 was the first commercial passenger flight from Sydney’s second major airport, and...
Share this story Shortly after noon on Saturday, 24 October 2026, a small plane over Palm Beach, Florida, picked up an unwanted escort. A NORAD F-16 intercepted the general aviation aircraft at about 12:20 p.m. local time after it flew into the FAA Temporary Flight...
Share this story Boeing has not finished a 777 Freighter in nearly two months. Not because of a strike, an engine shortage or a regulator. According to a Reuters exclusive published late on 23 October 2026, the line in Everett, Washington, stopped because a small...
Share this story About 200 people gathered at 17 Wing Winnipeg on Saturday, 24 October 2026, to say goodbye to an old friend. Backdropped by a grey CC-130H Hercules, the Royal Canadian Air Force held a retirement ceremony for the last of its H-model Hercules, the...
Share this story After the hottest summer Britain has ever recorded, the government has decided that some wildfires are simply out of reach for firefighters on foot. Its answer is in the hangars of the Royal Air Force: the twin-rotor CH-47 Chinook and the A400M Atlas...
Share this story Landing gear failures usually make headlines on touchdown, at speed, with a crew fighting to keep a heavy aircraft straight. This one happened with the aircraft standing still. On Friday morning, 23 October 2026, the left wing landing gear of a...
Share this story To a generation of fighter pilots and the millions who wanted to be one, he will always be Viper: the calm, moustached commanding officer of the Navy Fighter Weapons School in Top Gun, the man who told Maverick the truth about his father. Tom...
Recent Comments