The World of Aviation

The F-35A Lightning II has 0fficially been selected to replace the Swiss Air Force’s ageing fleet of F-5 Tigers and F/A-18 Hornets over the next decade. The Swiss Federal Council selected the Lockheed Martin-built aircraft following a competition that assessed the jet’s performance against three other contenders — Airbus’ Eurofighter Typhoon, Dassault’s Rafale, and Boeing’s

NASA’s Mars Helicopter Ingenuity has successfully completed its ninth flight on the Red Planet, in what NASA has dubbed its “most challenging” flight to date. In a tweet announcing the success of the flight, NASA’s California-based Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which oversees the Ingenuity program, said “the rotorcraft completed its 9th and most challenging flight yet”

The huge 742,000 square meter terminal was originally designed to open for business in 2017, however, the project was delayed numerous times.

Qatar Airways has expanded its trial of the International Air Transport Association’s Travel Pass digital health verification app to include the verification of COVID-19 vaccination history. Over the last few months, airlines across the globe have stepped up to trial IATA’s ‘digital passport’ that works to verify health information, allowing customers to comfortably travel, and

A Boeing 737-200 cargo aircraft with two pilots on board made an emergency landing in water off the coast of Honolulu, Hawaii, in the early hours of the morning on Friday, with both pilots rescued by the US Coast Guard. Transair Flight 810, operated by Rhoades Aviation, departed Honolulu at 1:33am local time, with the

A Philippine Air Force Lockheed C-130 carrying troops crashed and caught alight in one of the country’s southern islands on Sunday, killing at least 45 people, in the Philippines’ worst military air disaster in nearly three decades. The C-130 Hercules transport aircraft was flying from Laguindingan to Jolo carrying 92 people in total, most of