Your engine just quit. The propeller windmills to a stop. The cockpit gets eerily quiet except for the wind and the stall warning horn you’re about to hear if you don’t do something right now. Every student pilot knows the first move: pitch for best glide...
The Bab el-Mandeb Strait is 20 miles wide. That’s it. Twenty miles of water separating Yemen from Djibouti, Africa from the Arabian Peninsula, and roughly 12% of global trade from total chaos. The Houthis just threatened to shut it down. Mohammed Mansour, the...
On June 3, 2026, a Marine Corps AV-8B Harrier will lift off from the runway at MCAS Cherry Point, North Carolina, hover for a moment in that unmistakable way only a Harrier can, and then touch down for the very last time. After more than four decades of service, the...
A standard T-43A — the base airframe from which the heavily modified NT-43A was created. The secret version looks very different. (Photo: U.S. Air Force / Wikimedia Commons) It’s a Boeing 737. Sort of. It has a bulging nose radome that makes it look like a...
U.S. bombers and tankers have been rerouted after European allies shut their airspace and bases to Iran-linked operations. (Photo: U.S. Air Force / Wikimedia Commons) The United States has spent decades building a network of air bases, refuelling stops, and overflight...
A Cessna 152 trainer — the type of aircraft most commonly found in the traffic pattern at uncontrolled airports. (Wikimedia Commons) Two aircraft, same altitude, converging at a combined closing speed that left neither pilot with time to react. One was flying the...
Runway lights at night — sometimes the only visual reference a pilot has. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons) Imagine flying toward a runway on a moonless night. No city lights below. No horizon ahead. Just a rectangle of white and amber lights floating in absolute darkness....
An F-35A Lightning II — the same variant involved in the Nevada crash. (Photo: U.S. Air Force / Wikimedia Commons) The pilot reported trouble maneuvering. Seconds later, the canopy blew off, the Martin-Baker US16E ejection seat fired, and a $100-million stealth...
The engine goes silent. One moment you have 180 horsepower pulling you through the sky; the next, you have a very expensive glider and a finite amount of altitude to spend. Every pilot trains for this moment. Most learn the same mantra: pitch for best glide speed. But...
On March 13, 2026, a sound not heard since September 1945 echoed across Toowoomba Wellcamp Airport in Queensland. A Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasp radial engine — 14 cylinders, 1,200 horsepower — roared to life, and a stubby, pugnacious little fighter rolled down the...
Related: Dozens of Warthogs Gear Up for Iran Four weeks into the air campaign against Iran, the United States has struck more than 10,000 targets. Roughly 80 percent of Tehran’s integrated air defence network lies in ruins. Its navy has been functionally...
SAS at 80: From Polar Pioneer to Unlikely Survivor QUICK FACTS Founded: August 1, 1946 | Founders: Denmark, Norway, Sweden (Tripartite) | First Intercontinental: Stockholm-New York, Sept 1946 | Polar Pioneering: 1954 (first regular transpolar routes) | Milestone:...
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