10+ hour, 51+ min ago   (213+ words) AeroXplorer Aviation stories you'll actually read ✈️ Concorde's Droop-Nose Mechanism: Why It Existed and How It Worked The Problem Created by a Supersonic Shape Concorde's nose was long and needle-thin for one reason, cutting wave drag at Mach 2. Its wing paid…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (321+ words) A Hungarian Air Force Gripen fighter jet crashed near the city of Szolnok on Monday, with the pilot ejecting safely and no injuries reported on the ground or damage to civilian property, Prime Minister Magyar confirmed. The aircraft went down…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (487+ words) A NetJets Cessna Citation Longitude executed an emergency landing without its nose gear at Akron-Canton Airport in Ohio, coming to rest on the runway after the front landing gear failed to deploy. Both pilots on board, who were the only…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (559+ words) A serious near miss between two aircraft on the tarmac at Sydney Airport has injured a crew member and reignited concerns about air traffic control staffing across Australia's busiest aviation hub. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau has been notified and…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (190+ words) Among the suppliers on display at this year’s Farnborough International Airshow was a company whose components rarely get seen but rarely get replaced either. UMBRAGROUP, headquartered in Foligno, Italy, has spent more than 50 years turning precision mechanical motion into a…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (387+ words) Dovetail, the Australian-Spanish company converting Cessna Caravans and Beechcraft King Airs into zero-emission, battery- and hybrid-electric aircraft, announced at the show that Norwegian operator Ludens Aviation is its launch customer. It's a milestone five years in the making, and a…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (749+ words) The Federal Aviation Administration has issued a proposed airworthiness directive warning that passenger seats on certain Boeing 737 MAX aircraft could fail during flight, potentially putting travelers at risk during turbulence, hard landings, or emergency situations. The agency flagged concerns about…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (914+ words) AeroXplorer Aviation stories you'll actually read ✈️ The Long Way Home: Boeing's 777X Nears Certification at Farnborough 2026, And Boeing Already Wants It to Fly Even Farther Thirteen years ago, at the 2013 Dubai Airshow, Boeing launched the 777X with a target entry-into-service date of…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (930+ words) In a hangar in Wichita, Kansas, a bare aluminum fuselage sits on jacks, stripped down to little more than its skeleton. To those who have had the chance to see the aircraft in between work sessions, it might look like…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (721+ words) SMBC Aviation Capital, one of the world's largest aircraft lessors, has placed a firm order for 100 Airbus A320neo Family aircraft, capping a single day of fleet expansion that also saw the Dublin-based company commit to an equally sized order with rival…...