Fall's shorter days quietly expire pilot night currency and expose aircraft maintenance gaps - here's what to inspect and verify before your next evening flight.
Blackhawk Group has demonstrated a 72-hour bench overhaul for turbine engines, potentially cutting aircraft downtime from three months to two or three weeks.
Honeywell Aerospace is pursuing supplier acquisitions to end the parts shortages and extended lead times that have grounded aircraft across the industry.
The USS Abraham Lincoln completed 286 consecutive days at sea, including seven months of combat operations, before arriving in Thailand on September 2, 2026 - a deployment that tests both aircraft and aviators to their limits.
A tail strike on a Boeing 787 or Airbus A350 can ground an aircraft for weeks - not days - because carbon fiber composites hide internal structural damage invisibly.
The B-52 Stratofortress has outlived roughly 20 retirement attempts and may serve until age 100, thanks to its overbuilt airframe and standoff-weapon mission.