B-1B Gets 50% More Firepower With External Pylons
The B-1B Lancer is getting the biggest weapons upgrade in its operational history. The U.S. Air Force’s Load Adaptable Modular (LAM) pylon program will restore six dormant external hardpoints on the bomber, boosting its total precision weapons capacity by...
$465 an Hour: The Big 3 Just Rewrote U.S. Airline Pilot Pay
For most of aviation history, the salary difference between a Delta captain and a United captain on the same kind of aircraft was a real number. Sometimes 5%. Sometimes 8%. Always enough to matter when a pilot was deciding which big airline to chase. In 2026, that...
British Airways Just Axed 19 Routes — Gatwick Bleeds, Heathrow Wins
Cape Town, Las Vegas, JFK, Aruba, Jeddah, Kuwait, Costa Rica’s San José — and eleven European short-hops including Cologne, Grenoble, Izmir, Riga and Kalamata. British Airways is dropping nineteen routes from its summer 2026 timetable. Seven long-haul, twelve...
DARPA’s X-76: Jet Speed, Helicopter Freedom — In One Aircraft
Helicopters do something fixed-wing aircraft cannot. They land on rooftops, in jungles, on the back of a destroyer, on a forest road, on a Pacific atoll smaller than a basketball court. The price they pay is speed. A helicopter that cruises at 150 knots is unusual....
Sun Country Brings Back Its Nineties Paint Job
Sun Country Airlines never expected to become an airline-industry case study. Founded in 1982 by laid-off Braniff pilots, it spent thirty years quietly running ski charters out of Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Las Vegas package tours, and the occasional NCAA bowl-game ferry...
Ethiopian Airlines Is in Talks for Another Massive Airbus Order
Most African airlines have spent the last decade trying to survive. Ethiopian Airlines has spent the last decade trying to outgrow every other airline on its continent — and then a few off it. The Addis Ababa-based carrier flies more international passengers than any...
B-1B ‘Apocalypse II’ Returns from the Dead
At Dyess Air Force Base in Abilene, Texas, a B-1B Lancer that had spent years in the Arizona boneyard rolled back onto the flight line in May 2026, freshly repainted and bearing a name that reads like a sequel nobody expected: “Apocalypse II.” Serial...
eVTOL Air Taxis: What You Need to Know Before 2026 Ends
The future of urban air mobility is no longer a PowerPoint fantasy. In April 2026, Joby Aviation completed a landmark demonstration flight from JFK Airport to Manhattan in just seven minutes — a journey that can take over an hour by car during rush hour. With the FAA...
The Passenger Who Flew to the Wrong Santiago
In the grand tradition of aviation blunders that make you simultaneously cringe and laugh until your sides hurt, we present the tale of one unlucky traveler who learned the hard way that not all Santiagos are created equal. What was supposed to be a journey to the...
LOT Polish Airlines Sues Boeing Over Hidden MAX Risks
The 737 MAX crisis produced some of the most consequential aviation litigation in history. There were settlements with the families of the 346 victims. There were billion-dollar government penalties. There were executive depositions, congressional hearings, and a...
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