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The Navy completed the investigation about the loss of three F/A-18 Super Hornets and the collision with a merchant vessel during the USS Harry S. Truman’s recent deployment in the Middle East. The U.S. Navy has released on Dec. 4, 2025, the finding of the investigations into four different incidents which occurred during the recent deployment of the USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) Carrier Strike Group (CSG) in the Middle East. The inquiries examined a friendly-fire shootdown, a collision with a merchant vessel, and two separate losses of F/A-18 Super Hornets during intense operations in the Red Sea and Mediterranean.…

Following the well-received revamp of the La Première cabin earlier this year, Air France is now to extend the first-class service to four more cities, three of which are in the US. Air France introduced the new La Première cabin in March 2025, with each luxury suite including nearly 3.5 square meters of space, plus a seat and a chaise longue that converts into a two-meter-long bed. Spread across a generous five windows, each converted Boeing 777-300ER aircraft includes four suites with a thick, floor-to-ceiling curtain separating the guests. The first Boeing 777-300ER departed Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG)…

President Donald Trump’s administration set forth a new national security strategy that paints European allies as weak and aims to reassert America’s dominance in the Western Hemisphere.The document released Friday by the White House is sure to roil long-standing U.S. allies in Europe for its scathing critiques of their migration and free speech policies, suggesting they face the “prospect of civilizational erasure” and raising doubts about their long-term reliability as American partners.It reinforces, in sometimes chilly and bellicose terms, Trump’s “America First” philosophy, which favors nonintervention overseas, questions decades of strategic relationships and prioritizes U.S. interests above all.The U.S. strategy…

When flying with American Airlines, you have a few options for class of travel. All flights feature an economy as well as an extra-legroom (Main Cabin Extra) option. Most short-haul flights (except for those operated by 50-seat Embraer ERJ-145 aircraft) offer a domestic first-class cabin. Long-haul flights and select transcontinental routes offer Flagship business class, and flights operated by the Boeing 777-300ER and select Airbus A321-200 aircraft offer an international first class cabin (which will be going away). Then, there’s premium economy. Premium economy is available on all American Airlines widebody aircraft and Airbus A321XLR aircraft. It slots above the…

The 127th and, under current plans, last F-16 to be converted into an optionally-piloted QF-16 full-scale aerial target has been delivered to the U.S. Air Force. Marking the transition from production to the sustainment phase, Boeing Defense has celebrated this milestone delivery by releasing short video featuring interviews with some of the personnel who have worked on the program through its 15 year history. The requirement to convert surplus F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft into full-scale aerial targets (FSAT) was drawn up in the mid 2000s, with interested companies invited to submit their bids for the contract. In 2010, a $69.7…

On December 5, 2025, Gulfstream announced that its new G300 super mid-sized jet had completed its maiden flight.  This first flight took place in Israel, where Gulfstream plans to produce this model of aircraft in partnership with Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI).  The G300 test aircraft took off from Ben Gurion International Airport at 8:05 am local time and landed at the same airport approximately two hours later. During the flight, it reached an altitude of 30,000 feet (9,144 meters) and sustained a speed of Mach 0.75 for a period of 25 minutes.  Prior to performing the flight test, the prototype…

PARIS — Several unidentified drones flew over France’s Ile Longue naval base, home to the country’s fleet of strategic nuclear missile submarines, according to Agence France-Presse, citing the gendarmerie police.Five drones were detected “by technical means” flying over the base on Thursday around 7:30 p.m. local time, and troops assigned to protect the base opened anti-drone fire several times, AFP said.The drones were “neutralized,” daily Liberation reported, with the newspaper saying the usual procedure involves jamming.The military prosecutor’s office in the city of Rennes has started an investigation after the overflight of several drones, Liberation reported, citing the maritime prefecture…

The freighter industry continues to struggle with building a sufficient supply of engines and components as global demand drives soaring market values.   “We’re seeing engine values go up something like 50%,” David Ellis, chief commercial officer of leasing, investments, finance and trading at GA Telesis, said this week during the Cargo Facts webinar, “Full thrust: […] source

What a difference a year makes. Only Emirates and Korean Air plan to use the Airbus A380 to New York JFK in 2026. In contrast, Asiana, Etihad, and Lufthansa also flew the type there in 2025. One or more of these airlines may schedule the quadjet to the Big Apple again. Using Cirium Diio data to compare the first ten months of 2025 with the same period in 2026 shows that JFK’s double-decker flights have reduced by 39%. As Korean Air’s superjumbo offering is currently only scheduled through March 2026, Q3 2026—the peak summer—is down to have 47% fewer A380…

Qantas welcomed its tenth and final Airbus A380 aircraft back to Sydney on December 2, 2025, ending a nearly six-year storage period that began during the COVID pandemic. The return of the aircraft, named after Qantas founder Paul McGinness, represents the completion of what the airline calls the largest maintenance project in its 105-year history. The aircraft will initially serve as an operational spare during the Christmas travel period. Starting January 1, 2026, it will enter regular service on the Sydney to Dallas route, enabling daily A380 operations on that connection. Extensive maintenance program Returning the superjumbo to service required…