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 Within nine hours of flydubai FZ1073 landing at Tabuk, an Israeli cabinet minister had called it a jihadist terror attack, a finance minister had said the perpetrator should pay as though he had murdered, and the airline flying the aircraft had asked...
Share this story The man who buys the US Air Force’s fighters has a simple view of what matters most right now: factories. Speaking at the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies on 28 September 2026, Brig. Gen. Timothy Helfrich said the F-47 sixth-generation...
Share this story The Pentagon has been shooting missiles faster than it can buy them, and it has decided to fix that with a very large cheque. On 28 September 2026, RTX’s Raytheon announced a multiyear contract worth up to $20.7 billion for the AIM-120 AMRAAM,...
Share this story Before a fighter pilot fires, one question has to be answered with certainty: is that contact a friend or a foe? On the F-16 Fighting Falcon, the box that answers it is about to change. BAE Systems announced on 29 September 2026 that its...
Share this story Update, 30 September 2026, afternoonThe picture has changed sharply since this story was first published. According to Israeli officials, the first officer is now under investigation on suspicion of trying to crash the aircraft. The captain suffered...
Share this story The passengers were in their seats. The bags were in the hold. The Boeing 737 was ready to push back for Iran. Then, on Monday evening, 28 September 2026, lawyers and court enforcement officers walked up to the aircraft at Istanbul Airport with a...
Share this story When the first F-16 Fighting Falcons arrived in Ukraine in the summer of 2024, a lot of people expected dogfights. What Ukraine got instead was a night shift. Its F-16s have spent most of the war hunting cruise missiles and attack drones over...
Share this story Germany builds a great deal of aircraft structure. Fuselage sections, wings, cabins and engines leave German factories every day. What it has not done for a very long time is design, certify, assemble and support a complete airliner of its own. On 29...
Share this story China has very few military footholds abroad, and on 29 September 2026 it quietly added one more. Beijing’s Ministry of National Defence announced that a China-Laos Joint Support and Training Center and a China-Laos Friendship Aviation Academy...
Share this story Volotea built its business on the routes nobody else wanted: Nantes to Palma, Bilbao to Athens, Verona to Catania. Small cities, medium-sized airports, very orange-and-white checkerboard tails. On 29 September 2026, the Spanish low-cost airline asked...
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