In December 1941, a German engineer handed the Reich Air Ministry a several-hundred-page report describing a way to bomb New York from the edge of space. The weapon would be launched off a two-mile rail, rocket to the fringe of the atmosphere at some 24 times the...
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...
In December 1941, a German engineer handed the Reich Air Ministry a several-hundred-page report describing a way to bomb New York from the edge of space. The weapon would be launched off a two-mile rail, rocket to the fringe of the atmosphere at some 24 times the...
On 6 July 2026, British Airways flight BA919 from Düsseldorf was on its initial approach to London Heathrow's Runway 27L when the aircraft, an Airbus A320-232 registered G-EUUN, lost a piece of information most passengers never think about: reliable airspeed. An Air...
On 29 July 2026, at Korea Aerospace Industries' plant in Sacheon, South Korea did something only a handful of nations have ever managed: it declared its own supersonic fighter finished. The KF-21 Boramae — "young hawk" — is officially through development, a decade...
Over the pine forests of the Gironde, a shape far too large to be a water bomber banks low, opens its rear cargo ramp, and lets a red cascade of retardant fall across the treetops. This is no yellow Canadair. It is an Airbus A400M Atlas, the biggest tactical airlifter...
The rugged, unglamorous F6F Hellcat ran up a 19:1 kill ratio and made more US Navy aces than any other fighter of WWII. How the Ace Maker broke the Zero.
A Dassault Falcon 50 landed safely after a cockpit warning at Chicago Executive — then rolled off a taxiway into the grass, shutting the airport. No injuries.
In December 1941, a German engineer handed the Reich Air Ministry a several-hundred-page report describing a way to bomb New York from the edge of space. The weapon would be launched off a two-mile rail, rocket to the fringe of the atmosphere at some 24 times the...
Japan scrambled fighters over the East China Sea on 29 July after a suspected airspace violation — and said almost nothing. Here is why that silence is routine.
Boeing says the 737 MAX 7 and MAX 10 have finished certification flight testing — clearing the biggest hurdle before FAA approval and 2027 deliveries.
The U.S. Navy’s last C-2A Greyhound flew into retirement at Pensacola on 28 July, escorted by the Blue Angels — ending sixty years of carrier onboard delivery.
In 1911, cigar-chewing amateur Cal Rodgers flew the Vin Fiz from New York to the Pacific — surviving crash after crash to make the first flight across America.
With less than a year’s flying experience, Amy Johnson flew a second-hand Gipsy Moth 11,000 miles to become the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia.
In 1928 Charles “Smithy” Kingsford Smith flew the Fokker trimotor Southern Cross across the Pacific — 7,400 miles and 83 hours no one had ever crossed by air before.
In October 1930 the R101 — the largest flying craft in the world — crashed in flames in France, killing 48. It ended Britain’s airship programme, and its engineers had warned it would.
In the summer of 1927, a Hawaiian pineapple magnate offered a fortune to the first aviators who could fly from California to Honolulu — 2,400 miles across the open Pacific. Fifteen crews signed up, tens of thousands of spectators came to watch, and the...
The longest passenger flight ever operated was not a modern jet gliding from Singapore to New York. It was a lumbering World War II flying boat, cruising at 125 mph across a hostile ocean for up to thirty-three hours at a stretch — long enough for the handful of...