AIM-174B and AIM-260 Seen Together on a Navy Super Hornet
Share this story A grey Super Hornet over the Mojave, blue-banded test rounds under its wings, and a first for US naval aviation. On 14 October 2026, an aviation photographer caught a US Navy F/A-18F from Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 31 over Ridgecrest,...
Su-30 Crash in Kaliningrad: Both Crew Eject on Training Flight
Share this story A two-seat Flanker down in a field, two pilots on the end of parachutes, and an empty patch of countryside in Russia’s Baltic exclave. On 21 October 2026, a Russian Su-30 crashed during a scheduled training flight in the Kaliningrad region. Both...
Boeing 737 MAX 10 Certified: FAA Clears the Largest MAX at Last
Share this story Nine years after its launch at the Paris Air Show and more than six years after its original service-entry target, the Boeing 737 MAX 10 finally has its paperwork. On 20 October 2026 the US Federal Aviation Administration approved the amended type...
HAARP Over-the-Horizon Radar Test Detects Aircraft by Skywave
Share this story For three decades, the antenna field outside Gakona, Alaska, has been the most misunderstood radio transmitter in the world. Now the US military has given it a job conspiracy theorists never predicted: lighting up aircraft far beyond the horizon so...
SR-71 at the Air Show: Why the Blackbird’s Low Passes Were So Rare
Share this story Almost nobody ever saw an SR-71 at work. On operational missions the Blackbird cruised at more than three times the speed of sound and above 80,000 feet, far beyond the view of anyone on the ground. Which is why footage of it making low passes at air...
Weight and Balance: The Load Sheet That Doomed Air Midwest 5481
Share this story At three seconds past 0847 on 8 January 2003, the captain of Air Midwest flight 5481 said two words into the cockpit voice recorder: “help me.” The Beech 1900D had just left runway 18R at Charlotte and the nose would not come down. Ten...
Operation Starvation: The B-29s That Mined Japan
Share this story Late on the afternoon of 27 March 1945, 102 Boeing B-29 Superfortresses lifted off from Tinian. The crews had been firebombing Japanese cities for weeks, but on this night their bomb bays carried no incendiaries. Each bomber held a dozen sea mines....
F-16 Next-Generation Mission Compute: A New Brain for Old Vipers
Share this story Somewhere behind the cockpit of every late-model US Air Force F-16 sits a box that does the thinking. It takes in radar tracks, weapons data and datalink traffic and turns them into what the pilot sees. On the Block 40/42 and 50/52 jets, that box...
LATAM A320 Engine Fire in Lima: Passengers Off Before Take-off
Share this story LATAM flight LA2302 never left Lima for Piura. On the morning of Monday 19 October 2026, a LATAM Airlines Perú Airbus A320 caught fire on the ground at Lima’s Jorge Chávez International Airport, minutes from departure. Videos shared by...
Airline Fuel Reserves: What the FAA and EASA Actually Demand
Share this story A Boeing 747-8 holds 238,610 litres of fuel. Boeing prints the figure in its own airport planning document, to the litre, alongside the 63,034 US gallons and 191,565 kilogrammes that are the same quantity in other clothes. It is the number search...
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