SFGate

Footage appears to show aircraft larger than football field soaring over Calif.

From a distance, it looks like a war plane imagined by Hayao Miyazaki, or the type of machine that could only exist in a science fiction novel. But according to aviation enthusiasts who captured ...
CNN

US Navy says it recovered two aircraft that crashed into South China Sea

The US Navy has recovered two aircraft that crashed into the South China Sea in October while flying off the USS Nimitz, the service said in a statement Tuesday. An unmanned system on a contracted ...
New Atlas

Bizarre flapless X-65 diamond-wing aircraft comes together

DARPA's X-65, that replaces conventional aircraft flight controls with puffs of air, is coming together at Boeing subsidiary Aurora’s Bridgeport, West Virginia facility. The fuselage is taking shape ...
The Diplomat

China’s Naval Strategy With 3 Aircraft Carriers

In principle, China’s carrier force needs at least four vessels: one stationed in the Northern Theater Command, another in Sanya, one for training, and one undergoing maintenance or rotation. From a ...
The Hill

Largest US aircraft carrier reaches Latin American region

The Pentagon’s largest aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford, arrived in the Latin American region on Tuesday as tensions with Venezuela continue to flare. USS Gerald R. Ford and its strike group, ...
The New York Times

Aircraft Carrier Moves Into the Caribbean as U.S. Confronts Venezuela

The carrier’s arrival bolsters the extensive deployment of American forces in the region. Britain has ceased sharing some intelligence with the United States because of concerns over boat strikes. By ...
USNI

China Commissions 3rd Aircraft Carrier Fujian

Three years after its launch, the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) commissioned the domestically produced 80,000-ton aircraft carrier CS Fujian (18) in a major step for Beijing’s naval ...
Hosted on MSN

Mobile tutorial: aircraft view options while tracking

In this Flightradar24 mobile app tutorial we show you the different view options when you click on a plane, including "3D view", "Route" and "Follow". Fact check: 18 false claims Trump made on ‘60 ...
The Aviationist

Anduril’s YFQ-44A Collaborative Combat Aircraft Flies for the First Time

With the YFQ-44 now flying, both of the U.S. Air Force’s new Collaborative Combat Aircraft are in flight testing. The YFQ-44A Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) developed by Anduril has conducted its ...
The New York Times

2 U.S. Navy Aircraft Go Down in South China Sea

A helicopter and a fighter jet went down in separate incidents while operating from a U.S. aircraft carrier on Sunday, the Navy said. The crews were rescued. By Yan Zhuang Two U.S. Navy aircraft went ...
Aviation Week

Project Lotus, Northrop Grumman’s Secret Autonomous Aircraft Revealed

A secret aircraft has been built inside the Scaled Composites facility in Mojave, California. Credit: Google Maps Northrop Grumman has secretly built a large new uncrewed aircraft system (UAS), dubbed ...