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For three decades, it was the worst-kept secret in American aviation. A gruelling desert hike, a scramble up a 7,915-foot peak, a pair of good binoculars, and you could see it: the runways, the hangars, the taxiways of the most classified airfield on Earth. Now the...
Aviation World
Here is a story about building a better mousetrap and watching the world buy the old one anyway. In the early 1980s, Northrop spent $1.2 billion of its own money — not government money, its own — to develop the F-20 Tigershark. It was lighter than the F-16. It was...
History & Legends
What if, instead of sweeping both wings back like a normal variable-geometry fighter, you pivoted the entire wing on a single central hinge — so one side pointed forward and the other pointed back? The result would look like a pair of scissors in flight, deeply...
Military Aviation, News
The Air Force just doubled down on its most controversial procurement decision — and the reason is written in the wreckage of four F-15Es lost over the Middle East. The planned F-15EX Eagle II fleet will grow from 129 aircraft to 267, a jump so large it represents a...
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When Iranian ballistic missiles and one-way attack drones slammed into Al Udeid, Al Dhafra, and Ali Al Salem during the opening hours of Operation Epic Fury, the Air Force discovered a truth it had known but never fully addressed: its air bases were largely undefended...
Military Aviation, News
The Air Force just admitted what critics have been saying for years: the B-21 Raider is not coming fast enough. In its latest budget submission, the service revealed plans to spend nearly $1.7 billion over the next five years modernising the B-1B Lancer and B-2 Spirit...
Military Aviation, News
For the first time in 23 years, three American supercarriers are operating simultaneously in the Middle East. USS Gerald R. Ford holds station in the Red Sea. USS Abraham Lincoln patrols the Arabian Sea. USS George H.W. Bush has joined them in the Gulf region....
History & Legends
In January 1991, Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney walked into a press conference and killed the most expensive aircraft programme in US Navy history with a single sentence. The A-12 Avenger II — a carrier-based stealth bomber shaped like a tortilla chip, already $5...
Aviation World, News
Boeing’s best-selling jet is finally accelerating. CEO Kelly Ortberg confirmed during the company’s Q1 2026 earnings call that 737 MAX production will reach 47 aircraft per month this summer — up from 42 — with a target of 53 per month by year’s end....
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The federal agency responsible for keeping American skies safe cannot keep its own computers safe. That is the blunt conclusion of a Department of Transportation Inspector General audit published in April 2026, which found that the FAA has failed to implement 1,836...
Military Aviation, News
Somewhere in the Nevada desert, a Boeing 737 sits in a hangar that does not officially exist. It looks almost normal from a distance — the familiar cigar fuselage, the low-slung JT8D engines, the T-tail absent because this is a 737, not a DC-9. But look closer and...
Military Aviation, News
Northrop Grumman is putting its own money where the Air Force’s bomber fleet is. The defence giant has committed $2.5 billion in company-funded investment to accelerate production of the B-21 Raider, the most advanced stealth bomber ever built, by 25 percent per...
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