Stolen and Cut to Pieces: Amelia Earhart’s Statue Returns to Harbour Grace
The bronze statue of Amelia Earhart that stood for nearly two decades in the Spirit of Harbour Grace Park in Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, vanished one night in April 2025. Police investigated. The town waited. Then, for months, nothing. On 20 May — on the 94th...
The Aeroberm Vertiport Could Finally Unlock Urban Air Taxis
Everyone making eVTOLs — Joby, Archer, Lilium’s ghost, Volocopter’s ghost, Eve, Vertical Aerospace — faces the same problem nobody wants to talk about: even if you successfully build the aircraft, where, exactly, does it land in a city? The...
KLM’s 10 Longest Routes — Including an 18h 35m Monster to Manila
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is flying its most ambitious ultra-long-haul schedule in years: ten routes from Amsterdam Schiphol with block times of around 14 hours or more in the June 2026 to March 2027 season. The longest of them — Manila back to Amsterdam via...
A Garuda A330neo Just Spent 4.5 Hours Holding Off the Indian Coast
On the morning of 8 May 2026, a Garuda Indonesia A330-900neo — registration PK-GHI — lifted out of Jeddah on flight GA4208 to Medan, Indonesia, carrying Hajj pilgrims home. The routing crosses the Arabian Sea and southern India before dropping southeast...
A Delta A330 Engine Fire Made the Cabin Go Dark — And the Pilots Got It Home
A loud bang, visible flashes from the left wing, and then the cabin went black. Passengers on Delta flight DL286 from New York JFK to Milan later described the moments that followed as the worst of their lives — an Airbus A330 over France with a failing engine...
Embraer Hints Greece Is About to Buy the C-390
Embraer has spent the past five years quietly assembling the most surprising tactical-airlifter sales story of the decade. The Brazilian KC-390 Millennium has outsold every clean-sheet competitor in its weight class, picked up eight European air forces in succession,...
MV-75 Confirmed: The V-22 Osprey’s Successor Is Real
The V-22 Osprey was, for two decades, the boldest aircraft in the U.S. inventory. A tiltrotor that takes off like a helicopter and flies like a turboprop — faster than any helicopter, more flexible than any C-130. It also killed dozens of Marines in its...
Marines Pick a Civilian Robinson R66 as Their First Pilot-Optional Military Helicopter
The U.S. Marine Corps just made a quiet but significant decision. For its Medium Aerial Resupply Vehicle – Expeditionary Logistics (MARV-EL) programme — the resupply helicopter that will fly Marines and pallets to forward island positions in a Pacific war...
Merlin Just Won $100M to Put AI in the Air Force’s C-130s
The C-130 Hercules is the most-flown military airlifter on earth. Lockheed has built more than 2,700 of them since 1956. They have dropped paratroopers into Panama, hauled refugees out of Kabul, gun-shipped over Vietnam, and refuelled half the planet’s special...
SOCOM Wants the World to Buy Its Terrain-Following Radar
For nearly twenty years, U.S. Special Operations Command has had a quiet, classified advantage. When the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment — the Night Stalkers — takes an MH-47G Chinook into bad terrain at 30 metres above ground, in zero...
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