The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) released 20 pages of training materials concerning the collection, processing, and analysis of biological evidence following fatal aviation accidents. The…
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Larry W. Bryant was a UFO researcher, writer, and government transparency advocate who pursued federal records through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). His work…
Read MoreA U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon crashed on a local mission in Germany on Sept. 22. The pilot ejected safely and received medical care, Air Force officials said. The fighter was assigned to the 52nd Fighter Wing at Spangdahlem Air Base. In a statement, the wing said the jet was returning to base after…
F-35 fighter jet spare parts were reportedly diverted to Hong Kong from Australia, sparking inquiries on Capitol Hill and in the Australian Department of Defence over China’s possible access to classified material. First reported by Audrey Decker and Mark Satter at Politico on Sept. 18, 2026, a number of anonymous sources close to the matter…
A 52nd Fighter Wing (FW) pilot ejected and is receiving medical attention after an F-16 Fighting Falcon crashed at Spangdahlem Air Base, the second U.S. F-16 incident in a week. The aircraft, which officials confirmed in a statement as belonging to Spangdahlem’s 52nd Fighter Wing (FW), crashed onto the base’s golf course, which lies under…
Australia’s long-range ISR and airborne electronic warfare capabilities reached a major milestone as the MQ-4C Triton and the MC-55A Peregrine achieved IOC. The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) has declared Initial Operational Capability (IOC) for its MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft and MC-55A Peregrine Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Electronic Warfare (ISREW) aircraft. The announcement, arrived on…
After the only test stand capable of validating Aircraft Mounted Accessory Drives failed, maintainers overcame supply-chain challenges, fixed technical problems and cleared a major aircraft maintenance backlog. The 530th Commodities Maintenance Squadron (530th CMMXS) at Hill AFB, Utah, helped preserve the U.S. Air Force’s ability to sustain its F-22 Raptor and B-2 Spirit fleets by…
Turkey’s Aselsan has demonstrated the coordinated operation of electronic warfare (EW) and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) systems from a Bayraktar TB2 UAV. The live trials took place in Turkey’s Konya province in front of more than 15 international defence delegations. The demonstration integrated electronic support, electronic attack and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) capabilities into…
Low-cost carrier asked regulators to place more conditions on the future transfer of slots purchased by JetBlue. Breeze Airways and other low-cost carriers are urging regulators to preserve competition as they consider JetBlue Airways’ purchase of slots previously owned by now-defunct Spirit Airlines. JetBlue won the rights to 22 take-off and landing slots at New…
Canadian-registered medical jet had been bound for Toronto.US investigators have disclosed that a tyre burst preceded a runway excursion involving an ambulance executive jet at Las Vegas last month. The Canadian-registered IAI 1124A Westwind had been departing for Toronto at night, in the early hours of 28 August. According to preliminary findings from the National…
Helsinki plans to field 64 of the single-engined strike fighters. Finland has brought home its first batch of US-made Lockheed Martin F-35 stealth fighters. Two of the conventional take-off and landing variant F-35As landed at Rovaniemi airport on 18 September. The site is home to the Finnish air force’s Lapland Air Wing, which currently operates…
The retirement formalises the transition to the new EA-37B jet, which has assumed the Compass Call name. A formal retirement ceremony was held at Davis-Monthan AFB in Arizona on 18 September to honour the last EC-130H Compass Call, tail 1590, as it conducted its final operational taxi. Taking its first flight in 1981, the Lockheed…
