Portugal Bets on a Tiny Italian Trainer

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...
La FAA vuole i giocatori nella torre di controllo

La FAA vuole i giocatori nella torre di controllo

Il video si apre con una clip di un torneo di eSport. Gli schermi si illuminano. I controller cliccano. La folla ruggisce. Poi la telecamera inquadra una torre di controllo del traffico aereo e una voce pone la domanda che la Federal Aviation Administration spera possa cambiare per sempre l'aviazione americana:...
155 Aircraft to Save One Man

155 Aircraft to Save One Man

On April 3, 2026, an F-15E Strike Eagle with the callsign Dude 44 was hit by a shoulder-fired missile over Iran’s Zagros Mountains. Both crew members ejected. The pilot was recovered within hours. The weapons systems officer — a colonel — was not. He landed on a...
Rafales Scramble Over Baltic on Day One

Rafales Scramble Over Baltic on Day One

On April 8, 2026, two French Air and Space Force Rafale B fighters roared off the runway at Šiauliai Air Base in Lithuania, afterburners slicing through the cold Baltic morning. This was not a training exercise. A NATO Alpha Scramble — the real thing — had been...
Bahrain’s Vipers Draw First Blood

Bahrain’s Vipers Draw First Blood

In the pre-dawn darkness of April 1, 2026, a Royal Bahraini Air Force F-16 Block 70 lifted off from Sheikh Isa Air Base and turned toward an incoming threat that ground-based air defenses had already failed to stop. Two Iranian drones were inbound. Within minutes,...