On the 6th of September 1976, a fighter-pilot of the Soviet Union did the unthinkable. During a training mission near the Siberian airbase Chuguyevka, near Vladivostok, ussr pilot Viktor Belenko, ...

When the U.S. unveiled the XB-70 Valkyrie - an unstoppable Mach 3 bomber - the Soviets panicked. The answer came fast and furious: the MiG-25 Foxbat. Designed to climb to 80,000 feet and hit Mach 2.8+ ...

The factory-built version of the Yakovlev-designed ultralight, available in improved form in the UK as a microlight- or ‘Group A’ kitplane, really is the Fantastic Mr Foxbat Words: Dave Unwin; Photos: ...

A fatal light plane crash in western NSW will not be investigated, because it involved a recreational aircraft. The transport safety bureau says it investigates aircraft crashes with the "greatest ...

A student pilot from the Massey University School of Aviation appears to have marked out a penis and testicles with the flight path of a trip on Monday evening, and is now being asked to provide an ...

When talking about high-flying aircraft, most people think of American jets like the F-22 or F-35. But one of the highest-flying jets ever was not American it was built by the Soviet Union during the ...

Wheelchair pilot Russ Pinder traced a wheelchair in the sky over England on Monday, March 27, 2023. The flight, in a two-seater ultralight Aeroprakt A22LS Foxbat, took off from Finmere Aerodome south ...

The Russian air defense has no answer to it. Ukrainian engineers have turned the light two-seater aircraft A-22 Flying Fox (Foxbat) into an attack drone that can fly to the capital of the aggressor ...

One of Ukraine’s far-flying sport plane drones struck what may have been a Russian special police base in Grozny, around 600 miles from the front line in Ukraine, on or just before Sunday. It was the ...

There was a time when the Americans ruled the skies with almost science fiction-looking planes, such as the SR-71 Blackbird. A supersonic surveillance bird that looked more like the jet from X-Men ...