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The Boeing-versus-Airbus tanker fight that consumed two decades of American procurement just had a quieter, more decisive European sequel. Italy signed on April 16 for six Airbus A330 MRTT tankers — €1.4 billion, ten-year delivery — and walked away from a...
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For the first time in the Lightning II’s twenty-year operational life, an F-35B has set wheels down on a public road. Two of them, actually — Italian Air Force F-35Bs from the 32° Stormo, dropping vertically onto Highway 2 near the village of Jokioinen in...
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At 12:00 local time on May 19, an unidentified aircraft crossed into Estonian airspace from Russia. Fourteen minutes later it was a smoking crater south of the town of Põltsamaa. In between, two Romanian F-16s scrambled from Šiauliai Air Base in Lithuania, intercepted...
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For 81 days the Pentagon told the world Operation Epic Fury was the most successful air campaign since 2003. It probably was. But the bill has finally arrived, and a Congressional Research Service report quietly dropped on May 20 puts a number on it: at least 42...
Aviation World, News
For a year, every American who watched a near-miss video on social media or sat in a four-hour ground stop at Newark wondered the same thing: why is the country's air traffic control infrastructure held together with what looks like duct tape and divine...
Aviation World, News
Two days after a 3.5-foot humanoid robot took its own seat on a Southwest Airlines 737 from Las Vegas to Dallas, the airline issued a policy that did not exist in any other carrier's rulebook in May 2026. Effective immediately, Southwest no longer allows...
Aviation World, News
The American budget-airline map just lost an entry. On 13 May 2026, Allegiant Travel Company closed its $1.5 billion acquisition of Sun Country Airlines, creating what both companies are calling the leading leisure-focused U.S. airline. Combined fleet: 195 aircraft....
Aviation World, News
After 22 years, two of European aviation’s most recognisable blue tail-fins may be about to disappear from the cover of their own annual report. Air France-KLM Group — the holding company born in 2003 from the merger of France’s flag carrier and the...
Military Aviation, News
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....
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Building a sixth-generation fighter is, in many ways, an engine problem dressed up in a stealthy airframe. The F-47 — Boeing’s now-flying Next Generation Air Dominance demonstrator — needs an engine that does three things at once: it has to produce more thrust...
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They had been in the raft for five hours when the helicopter found them. Eleven Bahamians, mostly families, drifting in the Atlantic somewhere off the coast of central Florida. The twin-engine Beechcraft King Air they had boarded that morning at Marsh Harbor in the...
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For most of the year, the Trump administration’s Golden Dome — the most ambitious continental missile defence project since SDI — has run on a single sticker price: $185 billion over ten years. That number was the Pentagon’s. The Congressional Budget...
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