Throughout aviation history aircraft have found themselves used for all sorts of nefarious purposes. From secret fighter programs to

If you’ve read my previous article on the Besler Steam Plane of 1933, you’ll have already had a potted history of the attempts to develop aircraft powered by steam engines. On the face of it, it sounds crazy, thou...

In 1979, Northrop Corporation did something that very few defence contractors had ever done or have done since; it sued its own partner — the company it was building an aircraft with — for fraud, misappropriation, breach of contract, unfair competition, industrial espionage, and attempted monopolisation. All at once.

The aircraft at the centre of this dispute ...

Since the military took over in a coup in 2021, Burma, otherwise known as Myanmar, has seen the widespread use of indiscriminate air strikes against the prodemocracy forces who oppose the junta that know runs the country. Pretty much every day airstrikes hit a civilian target, often killing women and children. With no form of air defense, many of the opposition forces, and th...