Uncle Sam's Apaches: Five Million Flight Hours for the 2,000 AH-64s in the U.S. Military
3 Mar 2023, 21:01 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / In service with the world’s number one military power since 1986, the attack helicopter was built in over 2,500 units, used by 20 different countries
Spirit Airlines: How a Lowly Trucking Company Got Its Wings for Better or Worse
3 Mar 2023, 21:54 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Founded in 1964 as Clippert Trucking Company by a Michigan native Ned Homfeld, what would become Spirit Airlines started with simple intentions.
Hawker Siddeley Nimrod: The First Commercial Jet Airliner Gone Full Rambo Mode
1 Mar 2023, 21:45 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Outside of the handful of tragic and preventable accidents at the hands of Comet 1, the British Military also flew them with distinction as the Nimrod
2022 Was a Banner Year for Embraer, Brought the Fight to Airbus and Boeing
21 Feb 2023, 21:46 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / To understand why Embraer laid its own claim to the airliner market, we need to know the remarkable story behind its origin.
Tupolev Tu-116: A Soviet Luxury VIP Airliner That Started Life as a Nuclear Bomber
21 Feb 2023, 00:19 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Seriously? An airliner fashioned out of the same airframe as a nuclear-capable bomber? That's the most Soviet thing we've heard in a long time
This Couple Flew Cross Country on America's Most Hated Regional Jet, Not a Fun Experience
11 Feb 2023, 03:46 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / With only 12 inches of shoulder room to work with, Jeb's quick to note you'd better know your travel companion pretty well if you're flying this jet.
Airbus A320neo: The European Twin-Engine Airliner That Dunked All Over Boeing
5 Feb 2023, 19:11 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / As far as narrow-body, single-aisle airliners, the true book-end to Boeing's unrivaled dominance came in the form of one plane; the Airbus A320neo.
This Man Was the Warbird Whisperer, Tested the "Quirks and Features" of Over 400 Planes
4 Feb 2023, 19:39 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / This is the story of Captain Eric "Winkle" Brown, the Guinness Book of Records holder for testing more airplanes than anyone else in history.
Blackburn Beverly: Proof America Built Better Cold War Cargo Planes Than the British
3 Feb 2023, 06:15 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Aviation junkies who know the story of the Blackburn Beverly decried that comparing it to the C-130 Hercules was unfair. But the math doesn't lie
Boeing Puts $2.3B Worth of Wings on the USAF Pegasus Program, With 15 New Air Tankers
31 Jan 2023, 13:23 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / The aerial refueling fleet of the U.S. Military’s newest KC-46A aircraft gets reinforcements to put the total of combat-ready air tankers to 73
This Autonomous Electric Cargo Plane Promises to Revolutionize the Shipping Industry
31 Jan 2023, 09:49 UTC · By: Ancuta Iosub / Pyka's new Pelican Cargo is built on the company's autonomous electric flight engine and feaures extended range and increased payload capacity
Aero L-159 ALCA: A Millionaire's Toy Fighter Equipped Like a Legit Attack Jet
28 Jan 2023, 19:10 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The L-159 is an airplane developed at a pivotal time in Czechoslovakian history. A time in which the country needed decide to split up or remain intact.
Navy Aircraft to Attend the Superbowl, Commemorating 50 Years of Female Aviation History
28 Jan 2023, 15:27 UTC · By: Bogdan Bebeselea / This year, one of the largest events in America will host a flyover of some of the most advanced aircraft in the U.S. navy in a special commemorative display
Decommissioned Boeing 737 Gets New Lease on Life as Luxury Holiday Villa in Bali
13 Jan 2023, 17:22 UTC · By: Ancuta Iosub / Russian entrepreneur Felix Demin bought a derelict Boeing 737 and turned it into a two-bedroom, two-bathroom holiday rental
New American Supersonic UAV Will Mimic Russian and Chinese Fighters, Packs AESA Radar
9 Jan 2023, 22:16 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / F-22 pilots can spend all day, and then some, doing mock dogfights with other Raptor pilots. Or, they could use the Revenant supersonic UAV instead
Arsenal VB 10: The Forgotten Twin-Engine French Superprop Revived by War Thunder
31 Dec 2022, 18:48 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / With six M2 Browning Machine Guns on tap atop the four Hispano-Suiza 20 mm autocannons of the VB 10C-1, the VB-10-02 is an all-around excellent fighter
The F-15 Eagle Has a Flawless Kill-to-Loss Ratio, Its Accident Record, Not So Much
28 Dec 2022, 01:47 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Among those accounted for, 123 of the U.S. Air Force F-15 airframes have been lost to mishaps and accidents. 52 further losses occurred with all other nations
Boeing's Last 747 Just Rolled Off the Production Room Floor, Cue the Waterworks
7 Dec 2022, 07:34 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Though orders for Seven-Fours fizzled into little more than a trickle by the 2010s, the type continues to be the go-to airframe for heavy load cargo airlines
This Luxurious Morane Saulnier MS-760 Was Owned By the Shah of Iran, Could Now Be Yours
26 Nov 2022, 06:27 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The price for the wonderful flying piece of French history? It's actually fairly competitive compared to similar off-the-shelf new private jets of its size.
Air Force Research Lab Inks Deal To Support Stratolaunch Talon-A Hypersonic Testbed
15 Nov 2022, 21:31 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Formed in 1997 and based out of Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, the Air Force Research Lab has its roots indating back to 1945