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+==== August - (German Airport Drone) ====
+== Explosive drone found hovering near Ukrainian cargo aircraft at German airport ==
+Russian attack? Explosive drone targeted parked aircraft at Leipzig airport.
+Jeremy Hsu – Aug 6, 2026 3:01 PM
+German police disarmed a drone carrying explosives after it was discovered near Ukrainian cargo aircraft parked at Leipzig airport—and authorities are looking into the possibility of a second drone after an approaching aircraft collided with something midair.
+The drone, first spotted by an airport employee, was hovering close to the ground between two parked An-124 cargo aircraft owned by Ukraine’s Antonov Airlines shortly before midnight on August 4, according to The Guardian. It had apparently been modified to help avoid detection by the airport’s drone defense sensors, said Alexander Dobrindt, federal minister of the interior for Germany, during a press conference.
+Dobrindt described the drone as carrying a fist-sized package of a substance believed to be the plastic explosive Semtex. Only a failed detonator prevented the drone from exploding near the Ukrainian cargo aircraft, he said.
+A bus driver managed to kick the flying drone and caused it to crash, according to Detlef Seif, a lawmaker and member of the German parliament’s interior committee. In an interview with Reuters, Seif described the driver’s actions as “very daring and courageous, but also very dangerous,” while acknowledging that “it is possible that his intervention prevented the intended attack.”
+German police used a bomb disposal robot to help disarm the drone and later carried out a controlled explosion, according to BBC News.
+Contrary to some media reports, the German Interior Ministry has denied that the apparently targeted Ukrainian cargo aircraft were carrying weapons or other munitions for delivery to Ukraine, according to Deutsche Welle. Instead, government officials described the aircraft as having been empty at the time of the drone incident.
+https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/germany-disarms-explosive-drone-found-at-airport-hunts-possible-second-drone/
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+== The ultimate eclipse chase: A Concorde raced against the Moon’s shadow ==
+Fitted with telescopes, the plane did our longest imaging of the Sun’s corona.
+Dhananjay Khadilkar – Aug 7, 2026 12:00 PM
+A walk down the tarmac at the National Air and Space Museum of France is guaranteed to thrill aviation enthusiasts. Several civilian and military aircraft of the past and the present are showcased in this museum, located at the Paris-Le Bourget airport. One of them is the legendary Concorde F-WTSS 001 prototype, the sight of which should give goosebumps to science enthusiasts as well.
+That’s because right behind its long nose is a painted map that traces the path of a June 1973 total solar eclipse across Africa. It’s there on the Concorde 001 prototype because a group of eight scientists set a new world record of observing a total solar eclipse for 74 minutes by flying this aircraft at more than twice the speed of sound.
+To put this figure into context, the maximum duration of totality on the ground is around 7.5 minutes when an eclipse is observed in the equatorial regions. For the upcoming solar eclipse of August 12, which can be seen from parts of Europe, the maximum duration of totality from the ground will be slightly more than two minutes.
+https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/the-ultimate-eclipse-chase-a-concorde-raced-against-the-moons-shadow/