It is the question every fighter pilot gets asked at a dinner party, and the one the US Air Force spent five years and a public innovation competition trying to answer properly. How do you go to the toilet when you are strapped into an ejection seat, wearing a...
A crate of broken fighter parts is the least glamorous object in military aviation. Nobody guards it the way they guard a jet. It goes in a container, on a commercial aircraft, and turns up at a repair shop on the other side of the world. That is how the F-35...
664 Squadron carried an RCAF number and its pilots were artillery officers. For twenty years the Army and the air force argued over who was allowed to fly — and the answer kept changing.
On 1 February 1968 the RCN, the Canadian Army and the RCAF ceased to exist. For the next seven and a half years Canada had military aircraft but no air force organisation at all.
Canada bought the Grumman Tracker because it was short enough to fit HMCS Bonaventure, then built 99 at Downsview. The carrier went in 1970; the aircraft flew on until 1990.
A Royal Navy escort carrier with a Canadian crew, torpedoed off North Cape in August 1944, ordered sunk if she could not steam — and the two Avengers she flew off her sloping deck on the way home.
Fifty minutes of closed airspace, no drone recovered, no culprit named. Luxembourg has now lost its airport twice in a week to something nobody can find.
Three hours of closed airspace, caused by objects that cost almost nothing. A senior NATO official had warned of an uptick that same morning.
The hall built for the biggest wings ever attempted is being rebuilt for the narrowbody that made them unnecessary. £150 million, six jigs, first wing already up.
A Super Puma on water-bucket drops went down southeast of Ostrander Lake on Sunday. Both crew were killed. Why this is the hardest flying nobody watches.
A Raytheon CAGE code on a burnt tail fin is the first physical proof that US decoys are being flown into Iranian airspace. The wreckage is not the story.
Washington is not banning Iranian aircraft. It is telling every fuel supplier, handler and ticket agent on earth that servicing one costs them the dollar.
Sixty years of landing on grass ended on Monday. The VH-92A was too powerful for the South Lawn, so Sikorsky bought the White House a granite pad.
General Atomics released the first photo of its FQ-42 Vengeance holding formation with crewed US fighters. It is not being commanded by them. Not yet.
Thirteen days after Swanwick took down 2,000 flights, a connectivity fault at Prestwick throttled Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern England.
Canada ordered 60 new Banshees, the Cabinet reneged, and the Royal Canadian Navy got 39 used ones instead. The story of the only jet fighter Canada ever flew from a carrier deck.
In April 1966 the Royal Canadian Navy sent its only aircraft carrier into a shipyard at Lauzon, Quebec, for a mid-life refit. The point of a mid-life refit is the clue: you spend the money because the ship has another life to run. She came out sixteen to eighteen...