Aviation Diary

10/04/2026

F-16 Block 70: Taiwan Receives Its First Two Fighters

Taiwan took delivery of its first two F-16 Block 70 fighters on Oct. 2, the start of a delayed 66-jet order worth about $8 billion.

09/06/2026

Breaking — Amazon Prime Air Boeing 767 overruns runway at Miami International Airport. Emergency crews on scene. Updates as confirmed.

08/31/2026

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope is on its way. 🚀🔭

Launched Sunday aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy, Roman is now on a three-month journey to L2 — where it’ll hunt for dark energy, dark matter, and over 1,000 new exoplanets.

First images expected early 2027. The next chapter of space astronomy just started.

08/28/2026

RED FLAG-Alaska had a new addition this year ✈️

Misawa’s F-35As flew their first Red Flag, joining Marine F-35Cs over Alaska. Exercise wraps Aug 28.

08/22/2026

200,000 landings. 34 years. 🛬 USS George Washington just made naval aviation history with an F-35C touchdown in the Indian Ocean. Full story link in bio.

08/20/2026

122 years ago, a machine left the ground for 12 seconds and traveled 120 feet.

A Boeing 777 is longer than that entire first flight.

Today is National Aviation Day — Orville Wright’s 155th birthday. 🛩️

08/20/2026

For 50 years presidents have walked across grass to board Marine One. That ends this month. The new VH-92A Patriot produces about 2.5x the rotor wash of the VH-3D Sea King it replaces, and vents exhaust downward at the rear — enough to tear the South Lawn apart on every landing. The fix: a 100-foot granite pad, donated by Sikorsky.

08/19/2026

20 years since the EA-18G Growler first flight. ✈️⚡
St. Louis, August 15, 2006. One converted Super Hornet, one very different mission — and two decades later it’s still the Navy’s only dedicated electronic attack jet.
Link in bio.
📸 U.S. Navy