Aviation Blog - Page 12

The longest runways in the US, ranked from FAA records: Denver’s 16,000-foot runway leads Edwards, Kennedy and Vandenberg. Full top 20 inside.

British WW2 planes ranked: the 10 best RAF and Fleet Air Arm fighters, from Spitfire and Hurricane to Tempest and Meteor, with speeds and numbers.

A military junta is a committee of officers that rules after a coup. See what junta means, how it differs from a dictatorship, and who has one in 2026.

Arnold Schwarzenegger owns no private jet on the FAA register. Inside: the NetJets Gulfstream V, the governor’s commute and the $35M jet myth. Specs inside.

The best air defense systems in the world in 2026, ranked by combat record: Patriot, THAAD, Arrow 3, Aegis, Iron Dome, S-400 and six more systems.

Airplane costume ideas for dogs, from captain jackets and flight suits to biplane wings and paper planes, with fit and safety tips for Halloween.

The Taraia Object expedition sails Oct. 7 to test whether a shape in a Nikumaroro lagoon is Amelia Earhart’s Electra, the plane Purdue helped buy.

X-planes are America’s experimental research aircraft. We rank the 12 that changed flight, from the X-1 and X-15 to the X-59, plus the full list.

Is Airplane Repo fake? The repo agents were real, but the action was re-created for TV. What was staged, why the show ended, and the cast now.

How does Iron Dome work? A radar, a computer and the Tamir interceptor, plus the rule that matters most: rockets headed for empty ground are left alone.