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August 19, 2026
German investigation authority confirms tail-strike as Hanoi-bound twinjet laboured to become airborne. German investigation authority BFU has confirmed that the Vietnam Airlines Boeing 787-9…
For more than a decade, Washington sought to concentrate its military presence on the Pacific to keep China in check. The ongoing war with Iran now ties up so many resources…
But the most interesting findings come from studying the ejected material, since the images clearly show bright and dark "rays" extending from the center of the…
L3Harris welcomed the Artemis II crew and NASA leaders to the Los Angeles site in Canoga Park to celebrate the successful Artemis II mission.
In the U.S., Hanwha Defense USA won the contract to deliver wheeled self-propelled K9 (K9MH) howitzer prototypes for the tactical artillery…
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Legacy C-130s form the backbone of Indonesia’s transport capabilities. Indonesian MRO firm GMF AeroAsia has completed upgrade work on a second Lockheed Martin C-130H tactical transport for the the…
NASA released on August 18 the images captured by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) probe of the crater created on August 5 by the impact on the Moon of a second stage of the […]…
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AerFin has expanded its Boeing 777 component inventory at its Miami facility, strengthening aftermarket support for airlines and MRO providers across North America, Latin America and the Caribbean…
Over the past year, airfares in the United States rose 25.5%, though most remain below the levels driven by inflation during the Covid-19 pandemic era…
Electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft manufacturer Archer Aviation bought its former rival, Wisk Aero, from Boeing. In exchange, Boeing will now own 16.5% of Archer Aviation’s…
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The Government of India launched a tender to acquire up to 60 medium transport aircraft (MTA), in which Embraer, with its C-390 Millennium, and Lockheed Martin, with the C-130J Hercules, are…
The crater formed on August 5, when the upper stage of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket hit the Moon (photo from the LRO probe). The post A piece of a SpaceX rocket has…
In the first attempt, on December 3 of the previous year, to land the booster of the Zhouque-3 rocket using the same procedure as SpaceX's Falcon 9, there was still an impact just next to the…
Between the 11th and 12th of this month, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured a series of images of a new crater on the Moon. The crater formed a week earlier…
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MUNICH — Aviation safety authorities in Germany have launched an investigation after a Lufthansa Airbus A380 superjumbo damaged runway approach lighting while landing at Munich Airport on Monday…
ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot has become the first Frenchwoman to perform a spacewalk, venturing outside the International Space Station yesterday, 18 August, with NASA astronaut Anil Menon to repair…
Space Forge has signed a master research agreement with the Texas A&M University System, a first step toward building its US semiconductor-materials manufacturing capability.
The U.S. Air Force is planning to buy Chinese-made DJI drones for training purposes at a Wyoming air base that houses Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles. The 90th Missile Security…
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. announced that a missionized United States Marine Corps’ (USMC) Valkyrie Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) successfully demonstrated Electronic Warfare…
Photographers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston have documented some of the most defining moments in human spaceflight. From astronaut training and engineering tests to mission control…
Activist investor Elliott Investment Management further reduced its position in US carrier Southwest Airlines during the second quarter. According to a recent…
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On March 10, 2019, at 8:44 a.m. local time, Ethiopian Airlines flight ET302 crashed six minutes after it took off from Addis Ababa Bole International Airport (ADD). All 157 on board lost their…
A flight by US carrier Delta Air Lines from France to the US West Coast turned into an unusually long journey on 13 August 2026…
Improper loading can cause an aircraft to fail to take off on time. But the load plan of the Vietnam Airlines Boeing 787 now shows: in the incident at Munich Airport, this…
According to figures cited by the US outlet based on Pentagon data, 18 US servicemen have died since the start of the war, all of them outside the territory…
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The United States has lost at least 45 MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aircraft since the start of the war with Iran, a figure that represents roughly a quarter of the US fleet…
The manufacturer places its total payload capacity at 1,746 kg, of which up to 1,361 kg corresponds to external loads. The platform can integrate electro-optical and infrared sensors…
A QF-16 can provide a target of similar size and performance to a fourth-generation fighter, but it is not designed to replicate the low-observability characteristics of…
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The current launch pad, which will be redesignated LC-36A, will keep operating for the New Glenn 7x2 version, which has already flown three orbital missions…
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The aircraft carrier Liaoning (CV-16) of China's People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) was detected sailing in the Yellow Sea in recent days, in what appeared to be a brief…
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