The Smallest 737 MAX Is Finally Certified

The Smallest 737 MAX Is Finally Certified

Aviation World, News

After a certification saga that outlasted a pandemic, three Boeing CEOs and the better part of a decade, the smallest jet in the 737 MAX family is finally legal to carry passengers. On 3 August, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration granted Boeing an amended type...
US-Bangla’s $1.5 Billion Bet on Boeing

US-Bangla’s $1.5 Billion Bet on Boeing

Aviation World, News

Bangladesh does not often make the big Boeing headlines. That changed at a hotel ballroom in Dhaka, where the country’s largest private airline quietly placed the biggest bet of its twelve-year life. At the “Beyond with Boeing” event on 29 July,...
A 777 Flew Scotland to Australia Nonstop

A 777 Flew Scotland to Australia Nonstop

Aviation World, News

Somewhere over the Indian Ocean last week, a Boeing 777 Freighter was doing something faintly absurd: flying a set of engine parts almost 10,000 nautical miles, nonstop, because a single airliner on the other side of the planet could not fly without them. On August 4,...
Twenty-One Air Forces, One Australian Sky

Twenty-One Air Forces, One Australian Sky

Military Aviation, News

Every two years, the empty skies over Australia’s Top End fill with the noise of the largest air-combat exercise in the Southern Hemisphere. This year, for the first time, some of those fighters wore Japanese and Indonesian markings. Exercise Pitch Black 2026,...
Two Billion Dollars, One Desert Sunrise

Two Billion Dollars, One Desert Sunrise

History & Legends

Part 5 of The Race for the Bomb, an Afterburner focus series. While Germany’s program starved (Part 4), America built an industry the size of its automobile sector — in secret. This is the Manhattan Project, from a squash court in Chicago to a light in the New...
Moonshine: The Idea Born at a Traffic Light

Moonshine: The Idea Born at a Traffic Light

History & Legends

This is Part 1 of The Race for the Bomb, an Afterburner focus series on the science, the aircraft and the men and women behind the atomic bomb — from a London traffic light in 1933 to a mushroom cloud over the Kazakh steppe in 1949. London, September 1933. A short,...
The Flying Car That Actually Flew

The Flying Car That Actually Flew

Aviation World, History & Legends

For as long as there have been cars and aeroplanes, people have wanted to combine them. Almost everyone who tried, failed. But one man actually did it: he built a flying car that flew, that drove, that carried passengers, and that a government safety board certified...