South Korea Confirms It Will Build Nuclear Submarines
South Korea has just announced one of the most consequential naval decisions of the decade. Seoul will build its own nuclear-powered submarines. The programme, codenamed Jang Bogo N, joins South Korea to a club of just seven nuclear-sub nations — China, France, India,...
Israel’s First KC-46A ‘Gideon’ Tanker Lands at Nevatim
The Israeli Air Force has a new tanker — and a new name on its tail. The first KC-46A “Gideon” arrived at Nevatim Air Base on 27 May, the first of six Boeing tankers Israel has ordered at the height of the F-35I fleet expansion. After years of patching...
Iran Sets Up an Agency to Tax Every Ship Crossing Hormuz
Iran has quietly created a new government agency for one purpose: to tax every ship that crosses the Strait of Hormuz. Tehran calls them “navigational service fees.” Five Gulf states call them illegal tolls. Either way, the world’s most important...
Higher, Higher and Higher: Aviation in Soviet Propaganda (Series Overview)
In the spring of 1923, in Moscow, a young Jewish composer named Yuli Khayt wrote a tune that would haunt Soviet history for the next seventy years. The lyrics, by Pavel Herman, were three verses long and told the story of the Soviet airman climbing into the future....
Lady Be Good: The B-24 That Vanished in 1943, Found Intact in 1958
On the morning of 9 November 1958, a British oil-exploration team flying across the eastern Libyan Sahara saw something on the sand below that should not have been there. It was an aircraft. A whole one, almost. Broken in two, but still recognisable, still upright,...
United Becomes the First US Airline to Fly to the Camino
The pilgrims have been arriving in Santiago de Compostela on foot for 1,200 years. On 27 May 2026, the first ones started arriving by Boeing 737 MAX 8 — direct from Newark, in about seven hours, no European hub in between. United Airlines is now the first US carrier...
Banned Russian Cluster Bombs Found in Mali: Bellingcat Investigation
Hundreds of metal spheres fall from the sky over the village of Tadjmart in northern Mali on the night of 16–17 May. They are roughly the size of an orange. When they hit the ground, they explode. One child is killed. Three women are injured. In the morning, villagers...
Vesna Vulović: The Stewardess Who Fell 10,160 Metres and Survived
On 26 January 1972, a 22-year-old Yugoslav flight attendant named Vesna Vulović was working a JAT DC-9 service from Stockholm to Belgrade via Copenhagen. She had only joined the airline a few months earlier. She had been assigned to the flight by mistake — the...
Stolen and Cut to Pieces: Amelia Earhart’s Statue Returns to Harbour Grace
The bronze statue of Amelia Earhart that stood for nearly two decades in the Spirit of Harbour Grace Park in Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, vanished one night in April 2025. Police investigated. The town waited. Then, for months, nothing. On 20 May — on the 94th...
The Football War 1969: Aviation’s Last Piston-Engine Dogfight
The afternoon of 17 July 1969 was warm and clear above Honduras. Captain Fernando Soto’s Vought F4U-5NL Corsair, FAH-609, climbed out of the haze and into the kind of light that fighter pilots talk about for the rest of their lives. He was about to fight the...
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