The Funniest Pilot Logbook Entries Ever Written
Every aircraft has a logbook. And every logbook tells a story—usually about hydraulic leaks, faulty warning lights, and the slow entropy of flying machines held together by rivets, regulations, and sheer maintenance crew willpower. But hidden among the technical...
The B-52 Will Outlive Us All: Rolls-Royce F130 Engine Swap Clears Critical Design Review
There is an aircraft that first flew when Eisenhower was president, that dropped conventional bombs over Vietnam and precision-guided munitions over Afghanistan, that practiced nuclear deterrence through the Cuban Missile Crisis and Desert Storm and every anxious...
DARPA’s Hybrid-Electric Spy Drone Takes Flight: The XRQ-73 SHEPARD
On April 14, 2026, at Edwards Air Force Base in California, a small flying wing lifted off the runway for the first time. It carried no pilot, no weapons, and no fanfare beyond a brief DARPA press release. The aircraft was the XRQ-73 SHEPARD — Series Hybrid...
Argentina’s Last Skyhawk: 60 Years of the A-4 End at Villa Reynolds
On May 14, 2026, at Villa Reynolds Air Base in San Luis province, the Argentine Air Force said goodbye to the last of its A-4AR Fightinghawks. It was not just a retirement ceremony. It was the closing of a chapter that stretches back sixty years — six decades of a...
Germany Buys $380M in Joint Strike Missiles
Berlin is arming its F-35s with Scandinavian precision. On May 18, 2026, Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace announced a contract worth approximately NOK 3.5 billion — some $380 million — for a second tranche of Joint Strike Missiles destined for Germany’s future...
T-7A Red Hawk Cleared for Production
The Air Force has finally given Boeing the green light to start building T-7A Red Hawks in earnest. On April 23, 2026, the service approved Milestone C — the gate that authorizes low-rate initial production — and awarded Boeing a $219 million contract for the first 14...
GE Wins Engine Contract for Autonomous Combat Jets
GE Aerospace has been awarded a contract for the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) of the GE426 turbofan engine, purpose-built for the U.S. Air Force’s medium-thrust Autonomous Collaborative Platform (ACP). The contract, announced May 19, marks a decisive step in...
Joby Flies JFK to Manhattan in 7 Minutes
On April 23, 2026, a white, six-rotor aircraft lifted off from John F. Kennedy International Airport, tilted its propellers forward, and landed at the East 34th Street Heliport in Midtown Manhattan seven minutes later. No jet fuel. No noise complaints. No two-hour...
USS Ford Home After Record 326-Day Deployment
They left on a Tuesday in late June, 4,500 sailors waving from the flight deck as the Virginia coastline shrank behind them. It was supposed to be a routine deployment to Europe — six months, maybe seven, the kind of schedule Navy families have learned to set their...
MQ-9 Reaper Fleet Drops to 135 After Iran Losses: The Drone That Changed Warfare Meets Its Match
There is a number that keeps the people who manage America’s drone fleet awake at night, and that number is 189. That is the minimum number of MQ-9 Reapers the Air Force says it needs to sustain its worldwide intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and...
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