Eve Clears Hover, Eyes Transition: Embraer’s eVTOL Enters the Hard Part
Eve Air Mobility has cleared its most critical test milestone yet. The Embraer-backed eVTOL developer announced that its full-scale engineering prototype has completed the entire hover and low-speed flight test phase, delivering the high-fidelity aerodynamic and...
$12 Billion Burned, Zero Passengers Carried: The eVTOL Cash Bonfire
Twelve billion dollars. Gone. The top ten eVTOL companies have collectively burned through $12 billion in investor capital — four times what was lost during the very light jet craze of the late 1990s, and six times Boeing’s entire annual profit. Not one of them...
It Took Losing an E-3 Over Iran: Pentagon Finally Funds the Wedgetail
It took losing an E-3 Sentry over Iran to make the Pentagon do what it should have done years ago. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has submitted a budget amendment to the White House adding funding for the E-7A Wedgetail to the fiscal year 2027 budget request —...
10% to 95%: China’s AI Drone Wingmen Just Rewrote the J-20’s Kill Rate
The numbers are almost too clean to be believable. In Chinese military exercises pitting a lone J-20 stealth fighter against simulated adversaries, the win rate sat at a dismal 10 per cent. Add AI-controlled drone wingmen to the same scenario, and the win rate climbed...
267 Eagles, a Broken Lightning: Congress Pushes Multiyear Buy for Both
The F-35 can’t deliver on time. The F-15EX production line was kneecapped by a strike. And the Air Force needs both — desperately. Senator Ted Budd of North Carolina is pushing an amendment into the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act that would authorise...
Hivemind Goes Lethal: Shield AI’s Swarm Brain Wired Into Pentagon’s Attack Drones
The Pentagon’s vision of autonomous drone swarms just got real software. Shield AI — the San Diego company that built Hivemind, the only AI pilot to fly full-sized aircraft without GPS, communications, or a human operator — has been selected to integrate its...
Dragon Cart: Every Cargo Plane Becomes a Cruise Missile Bomber by 2027
A C-17 Globemaster III pulls up to altitude, the ramp drops, and 45 cruise missiles slide out the back on pallets. That is no longer a concept video or a PowerPoint fantasy. The U.S. Air Force just turned it into a funded programme of record called Dragon Cart — and...
RIAT 2026 Cancelled: Iran’s Bombers Kill the World’s Biggest Airshow
The world’s largest military airshow is dead for 2026. The Royal Air Force Charitable Trust Enterprises confirmed today that the Royal International Air Tattoo — the crown jewel of the global airshow calendar — will not take place this July. The reason: American...
The Fairey Rotodyne: Britain’s Helicopter Airliner That Was Killed by Noise
City to city, with no airports. Take off from a small concrete pad in central London, climb vertically, transition forward, cruise at 190 miles per hour, descend, land on a concrete pad in central Paris. No taxi, no train, no airport security. The Brussels-to-London...
TSgt James Howell: The Live Human Ejection Test From a Supersonic F-106 in 1961
On 6 June 1961, somewhere over the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, Technical Sergeant James A. Howell of the U.S. Air Force was strapped into the back seat of a specially-instrumented Convair F-106B Delta Dart. The aircraft climbed to 23,336 feet and...
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