UAE Orders 20 C-390s: Embraer’s Biggest Military Deal
Embraer just landed its biggest military deal ever — and it came from a country nobody expected. The United Arab Emirates signed a contract on 4 May for up to 20 C-390 Millennium airlifters, marking the Brazilian aircraft’s first sale in the Middle East and the...
NATO Tiger Meet 2026: Fifty Jets Duel Over Greece
Right now, as you read this, more than 50 fighter jets from nine nations are flying daily composite air operations over the skies of western Greece. NATO Tiger Meet 2026 is underway at Araxos Air Base — and it’s one of Europe’s most demanding multinational...
How War Reshuffled the World’s Airline Maps
For decades, Finnair had one of the cleverest strategies in commercial aviation. Helsinki sits almost exactly on the great circle route between Western Europe and East Asia. Fly from Paris to Tokyo, and the shortest path passes directly over Finland. Finnair exploited...
Belgium’s F-16s Shoot Down Drones with Laser Rockets
The video is grainy, shot from a chase plane banking hard over the grey North Sea. A Belgian F-16 rolls in, and six stubby rocket pods glow briefly as a volley of precision-guided munitions streaks toward a target drone. The drone disintegrates. The Belgian Air Force...
Israel Orders 50 New Fighters After Iran Air Campaign
Three months after Israeli fighter jets struck targets deep inside Iran, Jerusalem is doubling down on airpower. On May 3, Israel’s Ministerial Committee on Procurement approved the purchase of two full squadrons — 25 F-35I Adir stealth fighters and 25 F-15IA...
Asleep at the Yoke: The Pilots Who Napped Their Way Past the Destination
It is, perhaps, the most universal of human failings: falling asleep when you should not. We have all done it — during lectures, during meetings, during films we swore we wanted to watch. But most of us have not done it while flying an aircraft at 8,000 feet. Some...
The Coléoptère: France’s Insane Annular-Wing VTOL Jet
Picture a jet engine standing on its tail. Now wrap an annular wing around it — a hollow doughnut of aluminium and steel. Put a man in a tilting seat at the top, light the afterburner, and launch the whole thing straight up like a Roman candle. That, in essence, was...
Dublin to Raleigh: Aer Lingus Proves the A321XLR Revolution Is Real
There is a city in North Carolina that has never had a non-stop flight to Europe. On April 13, Aer Lingus changed that — launching Dublin to Raleigh-Durham service with the Airbus A321XLR, operating up to five times per week. The route would have been economically...
Alaska Airlines Crosses the Atlantic for the First Time
On April 28, a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner in Alaska Airlines livery will push back from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, point its nose east, and do something the airline has never done in its 94-year history: cross the Atlantic Ocean. The destination is Rome...
Air Transat Slashes Summer Flights as Fuel Crisis Bites
The war in Iran is reaching Canadian travellers at the departure gate. Air Transat, Canada’s leisure airline of choice for sun-seekers headed to Europe and the Caribbean, has announced a six percent capacity reduction for summer 2026 — cancelling 129 flights...
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