The Jet Nobody Believed In Just Hit 500 Deliveries
It began life as a Canadian underdog. Bombardier’s CSeries was the aircraft that wasn’t supposed to survive — a small, clean-sheet design from a company that had never built anything bigger than a regional jet, taking on Boeing and Airbus on their home turf....
Test Pilots Return From the Moon
At 8:07 PM Eastern Time on April 10, 2026, a blackened capsule trailing a wake of superheated plasma punched through Earth’s atmosphere at 25,000 miles per hour and splashed into the Pacific Ocean forty miles off the coast of San Diego. Inside were four people who had...
Raptor Pilot Takes Command at the Air Force Academy
The man who will shape the next generation of Air Force officers has 2,500 flight hours, 300 of them in combat, and has flown two of America’s most formidable fighters: the F-15C Eagle and the F-22 Raptor. Col. Brandon J. Tellez, a 2001 Air Force Academy graduate and...
39 Flugzeuge verloren: Die vollen Kosten der epischen Wut
Thirty-nine aircraft. More than 13,000 sorties. Five weeks of sustained air combat over and around Iran. The War Zone has published a comprehensive, open-source tracking of every US aircraft confirmed lost or damaged during Operation Epic Fury — and the numbers tell a...
Atomreaktoren kommen auf Luftwaffenstützpunkte
In February 2026, a C-17 Globemaster III lifted a nuclear reactor off the tarmac at March Air Reserve Base in California and flew it to Hill Air Force Base in Utah. The reactor, built by Valar Atomics, was small enough to fit inside a standard cargo bay. It was the...
Mysteriöse Waffe taucht auf einem Zerstörer der Marine auf
A photograph taken at Pearl Harbor on March 29 showed something unusual on the aft deck of the USS Carl M. Levin (DDG-120): a launcher that nobody outside the Navy could immediately identify. Mounted between the destroyer’s port-side torpedo tubes and its rear Mk 41...
Großbritanniens Drohnenkiller: Von der Skizze zum Vertrag in 14 Monaten
In late 2024, a group of engineers, venture capitalists, and a former British defence secretary founded a company in Cambridge with a single goal: build a weapon that could kill a Shahed drone for roughly the same price as the drone itself. Fourteen months later, that...
Before Lindbergh: The Two Men Who First Crossed the Atlantic Non-Stop
On June 15, 1919, at 8:40 in the morning, a Vickers Vimy biplane with two Rolls-Royce Eagle engines and no radio contact with the outside world nosed down through the clouds over the west coast of Ireland — and drove itself straight into a bog at Derrygimlagh, near...
Mach 6,7 am Rande des Weltraums: Die Geschichte der X-15
On October 3, 1967, test pilot William J. “Pete” Knight climbed into a black, dart-shaped aircraft bolted to the wing of a B-52 bomber. At 45,000 feet over the Mojave Desert, the B-52 released him. Knight lit the rocket engine. In the next 84 seconds, he accelerated...
Portugal Bets on a Tiny Italian Trainer
The next generation of Portuguese military pilots will learn to fly in an aircraft that weighs less than a family car. On April 9, 2026, Tecnam and Spanish aviation services provider World Aviation announced that the Portuguese Air Force has selected the Tecnam...
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