NetJets Gets the World’s Longest-Range Business Jet
NetJets Gets the World’s Longest-Range Business Jet QUICK FACTS Aircraft: Bombardier Global 8000 | Range: 8,000 nm (14,800 km) | Speed: Mach 0.94 | Power: 2× Rolls-Royce Pearl 10X | Cabin Zones: 4 living spaces | Operator: NetJets Inc. | First Delivery: March...
The World’s Only Yak-7B Takes Flight at Wanaka
This week at Warbirds Over Wanaka—New Zealand’s premier warbird airshow—the most historically significant Russian fighter aircraft ever to fly in the Southern Hemisphere will take to the sky. The world’s only airworthy Yakovlev Yak-7B is coming. Not the...
Sonex Aircraft Closes Its Doors Overnight
Quick Facts: Sonex Closure Closure Date Late March 2026, effective immediately Aircraft Affected ~700 Sonex, Waiex, and Onex aircraft worldwide Location Oshkosh, Wisconsin Owner Mark Schaible (purchased 2022) Founded John Monnett (1990s), Oshkosh, WI Reason...
Navy’s $10 Billion Trainer Race Begins
Quick Facts Program: Undergraduate Jet Training System (UJTS) Replacing: Boeing T-45C Goshawk (in service since 1991) Aircraft needed: 216 new jet trainers EMD cost cap: ~$1.8 billion Contract award: March 2027 Competitors: Boeing T-7B, Lockheed/KAI TF-50N, Leonardo...
America’s Last Triple Ace Comes Home
Quick Facts Who: Col. Clarence E. “Bud” Anderson (1922–2024) Record: 16¼ aerial victories — triple ace, 357th Fighter Group Aircraft: P-51 Mustang “Old Crow” Missions: 116 combat missions, never hit by enemy fire Ceremony: March 30, 2026,...
Spain Bans American Warplanes from Its Skies
Fifteen U.S. military aircraft lifted off from southern Spain on Sunday and scattered across Europe. Nine KC-135 Stratotanker aerial refueling planes flew north to Ramstein Air Base in Germany. Two flights headed for southern France. Four more simply disappeared from...
Five Companies Fight for Navy’s Next Trainer
The T-45 Goshawk has been teaching Navy and Marine Corps pilots how to fly jets since 1991. Now, after more than three decades of carrier touch-and-goes, hard landings, and thousands of freshly winged aviators, the little British-designed trainer is getting a...
34 Greatest Flying Aces in History: Our New Daily Series Starts Tomorrow
What does it take to become a flying ace — the most feared, most celebrated kind of warrior the modern age has ever produced? Starting tomorrow, April 1st, MiGFlug is publishing a new daily series: 34 profiles of the greatest fighter aces in history, one every day...
Saudi Arabia Gets the F-35: A Middle East Power Shift
At the Future Investment Priority Summit in Miami on March 28, Donald Trump made it official: “For the very first time, we agreed to sell Saudi Arabia perhaps the most capable fighter jet ever built, the F-35.” With that sentence, the stealth monopoly in...
China’s Secret Sub-Hunter Caught Over the East China Sea
For years it existed only in grainy satellite photos and rumors on Chinese military forums. Then, in September 2025, China rolled it out at a Victory Day parade in Beijing. Now, for the first time, Japan has intercepted one in the wild — and the implications stretch...
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