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August 21, 2026

Struck barrier during landing, East Fortune Airfield, East Lothian, 21 August 2025

Google has emerged as the winning bidder in a bankruptcy auction to buy a large package of Spirit Airlines’ internal business data for $10 million, with the transaction structured so the data is…

easyJet announces a new partnership with aviation technology provider i6 Group to roll out its eHandshake digital fuelling platform across its entire network…

2027 will bring a bigger Alaska Airlines presence in Italy, not only through the reconfirmed Seattle–Rome Fiumicino flight but also its resumption five weeks earlier than planned. The…

MCF argues that close contacts should be examined and treated at the same time as the cases and requests to know the protocol applied by Military Health. The association also requests…

In a ceremony held this Thursday, August 20, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Andrés Bello Diplomatic Academy and the Chilean Navy signed an agreement…

Portugal's oldest airline is marking its 85th anniversary. The Sociedade Açoreana de Estudos Aéreos, Lda., was founded on 21 August 1941 in Ponta Delgada by José Bensaúde…

On the morning of August 18, a U.S. Air Force C-17A Globemaster III took off from Christchurch, New Zealand,... The article C-17 bound for Antarctica turns back: why did it…

It succeeds a Convair C-131 Samaritan, a Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker and, most recently, a Douglas C-9 Skytrain II; no small feat! Earlier this week NASA officially unveiled its Boeing…

by Giuseppe Tarallo * Seemingly unforeseeable crises often arise from a failure to interpret a series of signals that, in hindsight, would seem impossible to ignore. The arrival…

Russian attacks have damaged about 4,000 of Kyiv’s roughly 12,000 buildings, or nearly one in three, since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in February… The post Russian attacks damaged…

Morocco is changing pace. And it is doing so with determination, the fruit of growing ambitions, fueled by solid economic fundamentals and a gradual liberalization of the exchange rate…

US carrier Alaska Airlines will expand its international network from its Seattle-Tacoma hub in spring 2027 to include two European capitals. The…

The use of drones as effector carriers to attack soldiers and military equipment is varied. The mission profile of a long-range one-way drone, for instance, differs considerably from that of a…

Japan’s SkyDrive has raised new funding through a third-party share allotment to Resona Asset Management Co, a Japanese asset manager. This capital injection strengthens SkyDrive’s business…
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Passenger volumes on the Kuwait City–Milan Bergamo route of low-cost carrier Jazeera Airways have fallen short of expectations, and the last rotation will operate on 11 September…

According to the Ministry, two of the 24 cases predate the mass entry on July 30, so it does not link the two events. Military associations, for their part…

The Port of Seattle Commission has authorized initial funding for the next major modernization project at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) – the S Concourse Evolution – with major…

The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) has filed a lawsuit to force the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to turn over records about the agency’s new privatization…

Drone operations beyond a pilot’s visual line of sight are becoming more common across industries, but safely sharing airspace with crewed aircraft remains one of the biggest challenges. A new…



The issuing of the new DOKS combat clothing (Defence Operational Clothing System) in the Dutch armed forces will be delayed again by several months. According to the Dutch…

CNBC reports: Hedge funds struggled to a historic extent as AI momentum unwound in July, according to Goldman Sachs. “Our Hedge Fund VIP list of the most popular long positions suffered its worst…
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In the highly competitive South African market, Airlink faces off against two rivals; an aggressive LCC named Safair and state-owned

A Forsa survey shows growing dissatisfaction among Lufthansa Group pilots. Only 24 percent would recommend the profession.

Flight attendants and pilots in the US have the highest share of deaths from radiation-related cancers among more than 500 occupations studied. This is the result of a…

Demain je serai pilote, by Gérard Feldzer. Jean-François Bourgain's choice. A member of the Aerobuzz editorial team, he chose a book from his youth that opened his mind to the plural nature of…
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Northrop Grumman has completed the critical design review for the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye Block II upgrade, allowing the company to begin integration and testing of the modernized system. Block II…

In 2022 the Russian Federation began its "special operation" against Ukraine, showing the world that the war of... The article Will drones defend Taiwan from Beijing's…