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Somewhere over the Persian Gulf, a widebody airliner’s navigation system suddenly decided it was parked at a nuclear power plant. Not approaching one. Not near one. Parked on top of it. The crew, trained for exactly this kind of absurdity, ignored the display...
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The federal agency responsible for keeping American skies safe cannot keep its own computers safe. That is the blunt conclusion of a Department of Transportation Inspector General audit published in April 2026, which found that the FAA has failed to implement 1,836...
Aviation World, News
On a bright morning at Bordeaux-Mérignac, the doors of Dassault Aviation’s final assembly hall rolled open to reveal something the business aviation world has been waiting five years to see. The Falcon 10X — the widest-cabin business jet ever designed by a...
Aviation World, News
Korean Air just placed the largest widebody order any Asian carrier has ever given Boeing. One hundred and three aircraft. Thirty-six billion dollars at list prices. Deliveries stretching from 2026 to 2039. This is not a fleet refresh — it is a complete transformation...
Military Aviation, News
China has built the largest airborne early warning aircraft in its inventory — and possibly the most capable radar plane on earth that is not American. The KJ-3000, based on the indigenous Y-20 strategic transport, represents a generational leap from the handful of...
Military Aviation, News
Somewhere in the Nevada desert, a Boeing 737 sits in a hangar that does not officially exist. It looks almost normal from a distance — the familiar cigar fuselage, the low-slung JT8D engines, the T-tail absent because this is a 737, not a DC-9. But look closer and...
Aviation World, News
The head of the United Nations aviation agency stood before a room of airline executives, intelligence analysts, and government officials in Malta and said what many of them already feared: the skies are no longer safe in the way the industry has assumed for decades....
Aviation World, News
A narrowbody aircraft has no business offering lie-flat beds across the Atlantic. And yet here it is. On April 24, Air Canada took delivery of its first Airbus A321XLR in Hamburg — and with it, a cabin configuration that would have seemed absurd five years ago: 14...
Military Aviation, News
Northrop Grumman is putting its own money where the Air Force’s bomber fleet is. The defence giant has committed $2.5 billion in company-funded investment to accelerate production of the B-21 Raider, the most advanced stealth bomber ever built, by 25 percent per...
Aviation World, News
A Vietnamese low-cost carrier just became the most significant international customer for a Chinese-built airliner. Vietjet signed a finance lease for 10 COMAC C909 regional jets on April 16, during a Vietnamese state visit to Beijing — a deal that is as much about...
Military Aviation, News
The Air Force is bleeding pilots, and two senators think they know how to stop it — with more jets, more money, and a radical idea: let fighter pilots take a year off and come back. Senators Ted Budd (R-NC) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) introduced a bipartisan three-bill...
Military Aviation, News
Emmanuel Macron arrived in Athens on April 24 with a proposal he clearly thought was elegant: hand over your Mirage 2000 fleet for Ukraine, and France will give you a preferential deal on new Rafales. A swap of old for new, West for East, legacy iron for cutting-edge...
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