The United States is doubling down on one of its oldest yet most versatile combat aircraft, handing Boeing roughly $2 billion to overhaul the B-52 bomber fleet for decades of additional service. The award centers on a sweeping engine and systems upgrade that is meant to keep the long-range bomber relevant in an era of

The U.S. Air Force’s E-7 Wedgetail jet program ​seemed doomed by delays and rising costs—until Congress stepped in.

Bedek Aviation Group is flight testing the prototype Boeing 767-300ER passenger to freighter conversion. Bedek expects to deliver the aircraft to EuroAtlantic Airways of Portugal by the end of this year. This will be EuroAtlantic’s first cargo aircraft.

In 2024, Wisk obtained a G-1 Stage 2 issue paper for the Gen 6, which laid out the airworthiness standards and environmental rules required for type certification. Now, with first flight in the books, the company is ready to begin what it described as an “extensive” and “rigorous” Gen 6 test campaign.

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. Speaking at the annual Air, Space and Cyber Conference ...

It was a promotional stunt that in today’s dollars used a $144 million investment by Boeing. And it was done without the knowledge of Bill Allen, then president of the company, who was watching. And fuming. He was not a happy man. The firm’s future was ...

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