Mirage 2000D Crash Near Nancy: One Crew Member Dead, One Missing
Share this story At about 10:40 p.m. on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, a French Mirage 2000D on its way home to Nancy-Ochey vanished from radar over the wooded hills of Meurthe-et-Moselle. Residents of Rogéville, north-west of Nancy, heard a detonation that shook their...
John McCain and Mai Van On: The Man Who Pulled a Downed Pilot From Truc Bach Lake
Share this story On 26 October 1967, Lieutenant Commander John McCain of attack squadron VA-163 rolled his A-4E Skyhawk into a dive on a thermal power plant in central Hanoi. As he started the dive, an SA-2 surface-to-air missile blew most of his right wing off....
Boeing 737NG Flutter Risk: FAA Orders Stabilizer Freeplay Checks
Share this story “Pitch oscillation” is one of those phrases that sounds mild right up until you read what the Federal Aviation Administration thinks it can turn into. On Monday the agency published a final rule ordering operators of almost two thousand...
F-106 Delta Dart: The USAF’s Ultimate Interceptor
Share this story The alert call came at 12:25 a.m. on a black winter morning, with the temperature at 28 degrees below zero. Within 75 minutes, all 26 of the squadron’s interceptors stood ready on a snowbound flight line, and soon the pilots were strapped in,...
USAF Test Pilot School Brings Back Water Landings in Amphibians
Share this story The people who will one day sign off on America’s next fighters spend most of their year in places like the Mojave Desert, where the runways are endless and the ground is bone dry. This autumn, some of them traded concrete for open water,...
APKWS Kits: Pentagon Locks In Up to 25,000 a Year
Share this story For years the cheapest way to swat a drone out of the sky has been hiding in plain sight: a 2.75-inch rocket family that dates back to the early Cold War, with a laser seeker bolted into its middle. Now the Pentagon wants that seeker by the truckload....
SyberJet SJ36 Mockup Unveiled: A Mach 0.88 Light Jet Promise
Share this story In Las Vegas today, on the eve of NBAA-BACE, SyberJet Aircraft is pulling the covers off a full-scale mockup of the SJ36 at Henderson Executive Airport. It is a nine-seat light jet that, on paper, would fly faster and farther than anything else in its...
San Jose Plane Crash: Cessna Cardinal Nosedives Onto an Expressway
Share this story It was a little after three on Saturday afternoon in East San Jose when a small propeller plane came down nose-first onto the roadway near Capitol Expressway and Excalibur Drive. The aircraft crumpled. Somehow, all three people inside survived: two...
Salt Lake City’s MiG-21 Will Be Scrapped at The Leonardo
Share this story For ten years, a Cold War fighter hung in the air over downtown Salt Lake City. Visitors to The Leonardo looked up and saw a former Polish Air Force MiG-21, red-and-white checkerboard on its tail, flying above a gleaming Convair C-131 Samaritan. Now...
United Airlines Flight 811: The Cargo Door That Tore Open a 747 Over the Pacific
Share this story United Airlines Flight 811 left Honolulu for Auckland and Sydney at 01:52 local time on 24 February 1989, a Boeing 747-100 carrying 337 passengers and 18 crew. About seventeen minutes later, climbing between 22,000 and 23,000 feet, the jet was rocked...
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