Date of sighting: Oct 2023Location of sighting: USA (no other info given)Source: Dept of WarLink: https://www.war.gov/UFO/?releaseDate=Release+06&release=06#LLE-UAP-PR002-Unresolved-UAP-Report-Colorado-October-2023I was looking at the Dept of War website at…
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Background Movements for civil rights were a worldwide series of political movements for equality before the law that peaked in the 1960s. In many situations…
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Background The following document was obtained by The Black Vault through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), and was part of the “Stargate Collection” release.…
Read MoreThe new A320neos will be delivered in 2029. Lessor BOC Aviation has entered into a sale-and-leaseback transaction with Colombian operator Avianca. The deal covers 12 Airbus A320neos that will be delivered in 2029, and will be powered by CFM International Leap-1A engines. The aircraft are likely from a wider commitment that parent Abra Group has…
All Nippon Airways twinjet had just touched down after Cat III autoland approach in fog. US investigators have determined that a Boeing 787-9 captain inadvertently activated the take-off/go-around switch during touchdown at Houston, causing the twinjet to pitch up and sustain a tail-strike. The All Nippon Airways twinjet, arriving from Tokyo Haneda on 27 February…
Black will oversee “shaping the industrial footprint for Boeing’s next commercial jet”, Boeing commercial CEO Stephanie Pope says in an internal message. Sean Black, the former leader of Boeing’s recently acquired Wichita manufacturing site, will oversee aircraft design and production system development for the company’s next commercial aircraft. Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) chief executive Stephanie…
The all-electric pilot-training aircraft is powered by a Safran ENGINeUS motor. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has granted US start-up Bye Aerospace an approval allowing it to begin flight testing its two-seat all-electric eFlyer 2, an aircraft marketed for pilot training. Bye said on 9 September that the regulator granted a special airworthiness certificate to…
Currier says the firm responded “too late” to supplier problems, promises an overhaul that will benefit the company for decades. The chief executive of Honeywell Aerospace has elaborated on supply chain issues that last month prompted the newly independent company to walk back 2026 financial projections. CEO Jim Currier said on 9 September that the…
General Atomics has unveiled the first renderings of its Wildfire drone, which it plans to pitch for the Air Force’s hunt for a new, low-cost Massed Modular Aircraft. Wildfire was unveiled in a sizzle reel-type video General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. posted on social media Sept. 9. The video touts more than three decades of…
An Iranian ballistic missile attack on a key U.S. air base in Jordan damaged multiple U.S. warplanes, people familiar with the matter confirmed to Air & Space Forces Magazine. One A-10 Thunderbolt II suffered a severely damaged wing and around eight F-15E Strike Eagles were slightly damaged but are considered serviceable after Iran attacked Muwaffaq…
U.S. Space Command maneuvered satellites across low-, medium-, and geosynchronous orbits in an exercise early this month, advancing the command’s push to master dynamic operations in space. SPACECOM announced the completion of Apollo Maneuvers 2026 in a Sept. 8 release, a month after commander Gen. Stephen Whiting announced the live-fly exercise to refine tactics and…
In the small world of Air Force weather specialists, combat weather specialists are a niche unto themselves, deploying with Army ground units to provide forecasts and, if need be, fight alongside those Soldiers. For Staff Sgt. Francisco Estrada, the hardest part of the job isn’t the possibility of ground combat, though—it’s briefing Army helicopter pilots…
Startups Anduril Industries and Heremus have agreed to integrate Anduril’s autonomy software onto Hermeus’ hypersonic demonstrator aircraft “Quarterhorse”—uniting two technologies that have drawn keen interest and investment from the Air Force. The firms announced the deal Sept. 3 and said they plan to fly the Quarterhorse Mk 2 aircraft using the Lattice autonomy system in…
