Share this story Suppose you want to build an airliner. In the United States you file an application for a type certificate and the Federal Aviation Administration begins work. Your company needs no prior approval to exist as a designer; the FAA will, over the...
Share this story In August 2026 the Federal Aviation Administration published an Unapproved Parts Notification about cup holders. Not a spar fitting, not a fuel pump — cup holders, headset hangers, windshield shades and yoke grips, 3D-printed in a garage and...
Shock diamonds, or Mach diamonds, are a standing pattern of shock waves in a supersonic exhaust. Here is why they form, why they glow, and why airliners never show them.
In May 1982, Britain planned to land SAS troops in two C-130 Hercules on Argentina’s Río Grande air base to destroy the Exocet-armed Super Étendards. Here is why it never happened.
How the Instrument Landing System works: localizer and glideslope beams, the 90 and 150 Hz modulation trick, decision heights, CAT I to CAT III, and why GBAS is coming.
On 27 October 1954, Tuskegee Airmen commander Benjamin O. Davis Jr. became the first African-American general in the US Air Force.
Ukraine plans to reorganise its Air Force around NATO-style aviation wings and multi-type air bases by 2035, spokesman Yurii Ihnat told RBC-Ukraine.
Castelion announced on 26 October 2026 an AFRL contract modification to begin integrating its Blackbeard hypersonic weapon on the US Air Force F-16.
A European Cockpit Association survey of 7,198 pilots published on 26 October 2026 finds 76.8% had a microsleep in the cockpit in the past four weeks.
An RAF A400M Atlas squawked 7700 after leaving MOD Boscombe Down on 26 October 2026, circled over Wiltshire for hours and landed at Bournemouth.
ASELSAN says its KGK-84 winged guidance kit for 2,000 lb bombs has completed its first qualification firing from a Turkish F-16 at the Sinop range.
On 26 October 2026 Electra flew its hybrid-electric, blown-lift EL2 demonstrator into and out of Downtown Skyport, the Lower Manhattan heliport.
The US Air Force has ordered Lockheed Martin’s AGM-183A ARRW into production with a $694 million contract, three years after it moved to cancel the hypersonic missile.
The FAA issues the certificate, but private individuals make most of the findings underneath it. DER, DAR, DPE and ODA explained, with the numbers from the 737 MAX and the statute Congress rewrote in 2020.
Sixteen years before he walked on the Moon, Buzz Aldrin was an F-86 Sabre pilot in MiG Alley. On 14 May 1953 his gun camera filmed a MiG-15 pilot ejecting, and Life magazine ran the frames. Here is the story, from Korea to Gemini 12 and Apollo 11.
The term OEM appears nowhere in 14 CFR Part 21. Inside Parts Manufacturer Approval, the three routes to proving a part, and why 82 per cent of airlines are blocked by a lease clause rather than a safety rule.
How a surface-to-air missile works: the radars, launchers and five guidance families behind SAMs, from the SA-2 that downed Powers to Patriot and Stinger.