Nel dicembre del 1941, un ingegnere tedesco consegnò al Ministero dell'Aeronautica del Reich un rapporto di diverse centinaia di pagine che descriveva un modo per bombardare New York dai confini dello spazio. L'arma sarebbe stata lanciata da una rotaia lunga due miglia, raggiungendo i margini dell'atmosfera a una velocità circa 24 volte superiore a quella terrestre...
Eddie Rickenbacker, America’s WWI Ace of Aces, survived 24 days adrift on a Pacific life raft in 1942 after his B-17 ditched.
TACA Flight 110 lost both engines to storm hail over New Orleans in 1988. How a one-eyed captain glided a 737 onto a grass levee with no injuries.
The Yakovlev Yak-38 Forger was the USSR’s only carrier jump jet: three engines, tiny range, and an auto-ejection seat. How it stacked up to the Harrier.
Nel dicembre del 1941, un ingegnere tedesco consegnò al Ministero dell'Aeronautica del Reich un rapporto di diverse centinaia di pagine che descriveva un modo per bombardare New York dai confini dello spazio. L'arma sarebbe stata lanciata da una rotaia lunga due miglia, raggiungendo i margini dell'atmosfera a una velocità circa 24 volte superiore a quella terrestre...
Operation Bodenplatte, 1 January 1945: the Luftwaffe’s secret dawn strike on Allied airfields that wrecked hundreds of planes but broke its own fighter arm.
Frank Luke, the Arizona Balloon Buster, downed 14 balloons and 4 aircraft in days, died at 21, and became the first US airman awarded the Medal of Honor.
The Grumman F8F Bearcat missed WWII combat but lives on as “Rare Bear,” the fastest piston-engined aircraft ever raced.
No Kum-Sok flew his MiG-15 to South Korea in 1953, handing the West its first flyable MiG and unknowingly winning a $100,000 reward.
The Arado Ar 234 Blitz outran every Allied fighter over Normandy and bombed Remagen — inside the world’s first operational jet bomber.
Nel dicembre del 1941, un ingegnere tedesco consegnò al Ministero dell'Aeronautica del Reich un rapporto di diverse centinaia di pagine che descriveva un modo per bombardare New York dai confini dello spazio. L'arma sarebbe stata lanciata da una rotaia lunga due miglia, raggiungendo i margini dell'atmosfera a una velocità circa 24 volte superiore a quella terrestre...
The Son Tay Raid was executed flawlessly 23 miles from Hanoi in 1970 — but every cell was empty. How the perfect failure still saved lives.
The Nakajima Kikka was Japan’s first jet, first flown 7 August 1945 — inspired by the Me 262 but an independent design that came days too late.
The Short Mayo Composite launched a mailplane off a flying boat’s back to make the first nonstop commercial transatlantic flight in 1938.
A modest airbase in southeastern Bulgaria has become the newest point of friction between Tehran and the West — and the cause is not a bomber or a stealth fighter, but a fleet of ageing flying petrol stations.In late July 2026, Bulgaria's parliament approved the...
A month ago, the U.S. Air Force cleared its first two "fighter drones" for production. This week, the factories actually started building them — and one of them dropped a letter from its name.On 27 July 2026, the first Ohio-built Fury rolled off Anduril's brand-new...
Portugal has put its flag carrier back on the block, and on 29 July 2026 two of Europe's three airline mega-groups laid their cards on the table. Air France-KLM and Lufthansa Group both filed binding offers for a stake in TAP Air Portugal. The third giant, IAG — owner...
On 29 July 2026, the Ukrainian Air Force reported the loss of an F-16 during a combat mission to intercept Russian air targets. The pilot ejected and survived.According to the Air Force, controllers lost contact with the aircraft while it was engaged over one section...
On 30 July 2026, India's government told Parliament something that, more than a year after the Air India 171 disaster, only makes the central mystery harder to solve: the Boeing 787's fuel control switches — the very components at the heart of the investigation — show...
At about 2:30 in the afternoon on 30 July 2026, sensors along South Korea's border with the North picked up something they couldn't identify: an unmanned aircraft, near a frontline outpost, not squawking anything friendly. In the most heavily militarised strip of land...