❗️An An-28 aircraft of the 🇺🇦Ukrainian Defense Forces used to shoot down 🇷🇺Russian UAVs. The aircraft has shot down Shahed-class UAVs and Gerbera decoys, as well as one drone, the shot-down mark of which resembles a Mohajer-6/Forpost.

Royal Air Force Red Arrows, Bae Hawks T.1A, performing during the 2025 Malta International Airshow over the Qawra coastline, Malta (28.09.2025) #lmml #malta #royalairforce #baehawkt1a #military #redarrows #photography #aviation #aviationphotography #avgeek #rafredarrows #red10

The Royal Thai Air Force has placed an order for an Airbus A330 Multi Role Tanker Transport Plus (MRTT+). ukdefencejournal.org.uk/?p=62707

The only Thulin NA ever built, photographed in the city museum when I visited Landskrona, Sweden, which were the designer Enoch Thulin's factory was located. Two seat fighter, built 1919, 215 km/h max speed.

(1964.) A 1.21 MB hard disc. 😊

Hat tip to @juliejohnsson.bsky.social and Siddharth Philip for getting this one confirmed: 777X entry into service is now 2027 at the earliest. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

And there it is… Ukraine will receive JAS-39 Gripen! Better late than never, I guess. The fighter that was always by far the closest fit to the Ukrainian Air Force’s operational needs is at long last officially on its way (timeline TBC for obvious reasons). unn.ua/en/amp/minis...

The Ukrainian military—the toughest, most experienced, most adaptable, most successful on the modern battlefield—is beardy old men, women, artists, gamers who can’t deadlift sh*t but can fly a drone into a Russian helicopter rotor Focusing on capabilities, not “looks,” is how you achieve victory

OTD on 30 September 1975 the YAH-64 made its first flight. 50 years on - how the iconic Apache still remains the attack helicopter to beat #avgeek #defence #aviation #history www.aerosociety.com/news/the-apa...

Perspective on Boeing’s 737 replacement By Scott Hamilton Sept. 30, 2025, © Leeham News: The Wall Street Journal billed the story as an exclusive, and it did contain details previously unreported. But the fact that Boeing is working on a 737 replacement isn’t new, even if Boeing has been…

#histscalemodels #scalemodels #heaviesgb #B-58 2/2 I was fascinated by the B58 history. 1st flt 1957 but not accepted by USAF til 1960, not unit operational til 1962. Retired 1970 after only 8 yrs😬 It was FAST, Mach 2.1 & that was about it. The SAM threat made it jobless☹️ F111 & B1 were the future.

The only C-27 I’ve ever seen in person was this Army example back in 2020. Tracking data shows it active recently out of Porterville, CA, and Laguna AAF at the Yuma proving grounds.

Ukraine has begun forming a new branch of the Armed Forces — the Air Defense Unmanned Systems Forces, which will operate under the Air Force, Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said on 26 September euromaidanpress.com/2025/09/26/u...

Flight demonstration of the Mirage G (single-engine) and Mirage G8 (twin-engine) in the early 1970s. This was a series of experimental variable-geometry aircraft. The G8 remains the fastest Western European aircraft in history, with a speed of Mach 2.34.

Flying Bengals show stripes! www.scramble.nl/military-new... Credit photo: VMFA-224 #avgeek #avgeeks #militaryaviation #ICYMI #USMC #VMFA224 #F35B #LightningII #FlyingBengals

The FAA will return to Boeing the authority to issue airworthiness certificates for some 737 MAX and 787 aircraft starting next week after years of retained oversight, a move that could clear the way for a planned increase in 737 MAX production to about 42 aircraft per month. - More on hype.aero

Bjorn’s Corner — Faster aircraft development: Part 9 — Conceptual phase and certification work - More on hype.aero

Welcome to BlueSky @airbus.com #avgeek #aviation

By the power of disposable income, I summon... A 400 page coffee table book of box art illustrations by Czech artist Jaroslav Velc😎

How Germany is destroying its own business model. www.focus.de/finanzen/new...

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

C-17 and C-5 Cargo Planes Will Be Replaced With One Aircraft: USAF www.twz.com/air/c-17-and...

!! Excellent! “Counting U.S.-led buys on the list … the total comes to about €6.8 billion, around 8 percent of Berlin’s plan, with the rest overwhelmingly going to European industry.” www.politico.eu/article/germ...

German media claiming Berlin is close to cancelling F126 frigate contract with Damen on grounds of the yard not meeting agreed upon project milestones. As an alternative TKMS is supposed to deliver the same MEKO 400 baseline config also pitched for F127. defence-network.com/ausstieg-f12...

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Quote/ „One of the complaints about Boeing over the years has been a lack of transparency into development programs, particularly the 787.“ /quote And it was exclusively bad news seemingly coming „out of nowhere“. Makes a living for investigative journalists and analysts. 👍

me telling my grandkids what it was like to have vaccines

Ascend Airways struggles with CFM Leap engine reliability on 737 Max fleet www.flightglobal.com/fleets/ascen...

First Boeing F-47 In Production, First Flight by 2028 U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff General David Allvin announced on Sept. 22, 2025 that Boeing had begun the manufacturing process for the first production F-47, with a goal of seeing it airborne by 2028. Story: theaviationist.com/2025/09/22/f...

A local win for Embraer! LATAM has placed a order for 24+50 E195-E2, with deliveries beginning in the second half of 2026 initially for LATAM Brazil.

Sweden and Germany teaming up for a joint fighter? I'm happy to support it just because the unbuilt Saab-MBB J 37X Snabel-Viggen is one of my favourite What Ifs 😎

While an intriguing concept, the usual red flags such as the start-up nature of the company, and the clear commercial focus of the effort, with military applications being a secondary consideration at best, leave me pretty sceptical. breakingdefense.com/2025/09/how-...

Last week, the second B-21 Raider stealth bomber took to the skies for the first time, flying from Palmdale’s Air Force Plant 42 to Edwards Air Force Base. A new photo captured shortly after take-off offers a new look at the engine exhaust of the new bomber. theaviationist.com/2025/09/19/b...

These plastic drawer carts come in handy. I use one for tools, and another one for work in process - filled from top to bottom… 😬 #scalemodeling

La empresa hace prospecciones geológicas. Ese avión es como un detector de metales gigante. Podéis encontrar diseños similares de aviones, como el ju 52 con un aro, para detectar minas www.airliners.net/photo/Fugro-...

Wow, I thought it had left somewhere more remote for flight testing Scaled Composites/Northrop Grumman XRQ-73 SHEPARD chilling at Mojave

A rearview mirror for the SdKfz 222 punched from 0.2mm styrene clad with Bare Metal Foil. 🤓 #scalemodeling #76scale

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

Rolls-Royce To Lead Next Single Aisle UltraFan Demo aviationweek.com/air-transpor...

My recent article about cuts to #NASA #Aeronautics, particularly the elimination of the Revolutionary Vertical Lift Technology (#RVLT) project. There's still a chance to save America's civil #VTOL scientific research leadership if Congress approves NASA's full budget! www.forbes.com/sites/mikehi...

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

Turkey already demonstrated the most effective response to Russian violations of NATO airspace 10 years ago: Warn them off, and if they ignore the warning, shoot them down. Do nothing and Russia will keep coming. Hit back and they back down. The choice is ours. #Article4 #Estonia

Germany Considers Split From France On Next Generation Fighter www.twz.com/air/germany-...

Almost ten years ago, Türkiye solved the problem with Russian planes violating their airspace.

Renascence. When fog open to reveal mighty mountains surrounded by a forest and waterfalls in autumn… Panorama from a drone in the French Alps. #bluesky #photography #landscape #nature #autumn #landscapephotography #naturephotography #mountains

I’m not sure how I feel about Kimmel’s replacement, tbh.

Fact! 👇🤣🐎🤣🐎🤣 #horses

Another of the Aeronavale’s brand new H160B. A type leased from Airbus Helicopters whilst the full military-spec H160M version finishes development. Whilst the design itself is a bit marmite, I think it looks great in French Navy marks!