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UPDATE #2: Bombardier Gripen Canada: what changed after our November 10, 2025 report asked whether Canada might actually build the Saab Gripen at home? New information has also raised the stakes Notably, on November 10, we published our first look at the Bombardier–Saab idea (to read first). At the time, the concept still lived somewhere
A220 Pacific Expansion: what happens when Air Niugini and QantasLink redraw the South Pacific in 2026? In the span of 48 hours, three separate stories—two in Australia, one inside Papua New Guinea—put the Airbus A220 at the centre of a shifting regional air map, with new schedules, new capacity, and a not‑so‑small amount of strategic
Airbus A220 ramp-up can a sharper regional pitch, a higher-density cabin, and newly delivered door shipsets turn a strong aircraft into a reliably scalable programme? Three January 2026 datapoints suggest Airbus is trying exactly that. On January 6, 2026, Airbus signalled a marketing push that frames the A220 more directly as a “regional-plus” tool, including
Canada gold reserves: how did Canada, a G7 country, go from holding more than 1,023 tonnes of gold to holding none—and why does that decision look even more reckless in today’s risk environment? How did Ottawa go to just 68 ounces recorded on March 31, 2016—and still choose to hold none today? Moreover, the question
MH370 search resumes—so what, exactly, is happening now, and what would count as real progress in the world’s most scrutinised aviation search? Nearly 12 years after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 vanished on March 8, 2014, the hunt is back in motion, again centred on the southern Indian Ocean and again driven by the same core
Garmin Autoland system: can a single button really land a modern aircraft when nobody in the cockpit can? Notably, that question stopped being hypothetical on December 20, 2025, when a Beechcraft King Air B200 landed at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport (KBJC) in Colorado under Garmin Autoland control, in what Garmin described as the first “start-to-finish”
US foreign investments are back—so is this the moment Washington finally starts out-building Beijing in the places that matter most? In early January 2026, the investment headlines stopped sounding abstract and started sounding like ports, rail lines, and hard cash. Moreover, the Trump administration’s early pattern looks less like a slogan and more like a
France orders GlobalEye—so what does a Swedish airborne radar deal, built on Canadian metal, change for Europe’s air defence and Canada’s aerospace industrial base? On December 30, 2025, Saab confirmed it signed a contract with France’s Direction générale de l’armement (DGA) for two GlobalEye airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft, plus ground equipment, training,
Airbus A220 fake image: can you spot the errors in the snowy SWISS scene before you trust the headline? Recently, a dramatic “photo” of a SWISS Airbus A220-300 (registered HB-JCM) stuck in a snowbank spread across travel sites and social feeds. Meanwhile, the real event at Kittilä Airport (KTT/EFKT) in Finnish Lapland was serious enough
When another pilot makes a joke UAP/UFO aviation safety: what should a pilot do when a “small silver canister” appears off the wingtip at 3,500 feet—and another crew (flight Cronos 402) on frequency jokes, “I want to believe” and “Good luck with the aliens”? That “I want to believe” aside is straight out of The
