March 2026

At the beginning of March, the United States commenced a military operation against Iran, under the code name Epic Fury. Backed by Israel’s own Operation Roaring Lion, this led to a lot of unrest in the already volatile Middle East, and the attack has caused a lot of problems around the globe. With all that going on, to ease your mind we have another edition of Scramble for you.

One article for your reading pleasure this month, and if you are into Slide scanning… editors Frank Noort and Gert Jan Mentink have researched a new way of making sure those old slides are now easily transformed into digital pictures and came back with the results. They had a look at an alternative way, and reviewed equipment manufactured by Finnish producer VALOI. Click here for the article.

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The April 2026 edition will be available from Sunday 5 April and the deadline for photos is Tuesday 31 March.

What Icelandair does from Keflavík between Europe and North America, New Pacific Airlines (its last name after several changes) tried from Anchorage between North America and Asia. Unfortunately, this did not work out and operations ceased late November 2025. Photographed by Anton Homma on 16 January 2026 at Mojave (CA), N628NP is one of three 757s that actually had joined the fleet and were put into storage.