Fuel Tankering Explained: Why Airlines Carry Fuel They Don’t Need
Share this story Most passengers assume an airliner fills up before every flight with just enough fuel for the trip plus reserves. Very often, that is not what happens. On a large share of short and medium-haul flights, airlines deliberately load extra fuel at the...
Hollywood Burbank Airport Opens Its $1.3 Billion Terminal
Share this story At 07:00 on Tuesday, 13 October 2026, the first flight left Hollywood Burbank Airport’s brand-new passenger terminal. The $1.3 billion building, on the opposite side of the airfield from the old one, replaces a complex whose original buildings...
Piper Malibu Mirage Crash Near Wisconsin Dells Kills Six
Share this story Six people, five adults and a child, died on Tuesday night, 13 October 2026, when a Piper PA-46-350P Malibu Mirage crashed in the Town of Dellona, west of Wisconsin Dells. The Sauk County Sheriff’s Office said everyone aboard the six-seat...
Top Aces, Draken and ATAC: The Contractors That Play the Enemy
Share this story On 22 September a grey-camouflaged Hawker Hunter lost engine thrust and went into the Pacific off Morro Bay, California. The pilot ejected and was rescued. The jet was not flying for any air force. It belonged to ATAC, a private company paid to play...
Quick Reaction Alert Explained: How Fighters Intercept a Hijacked Airliner
Share this story Twice in the last two days, an airliner has set the hijack code. On Tuesday a Corendon 737 squawked 7500 on its way to Nuremberg and two German Eurofighters were sitting off its wings before it landed. On Wednesday an Air India 787 did the same over...
Fairey Gordon NZ629: The Last Survivor of an RAF Biplane Bomber
Share this story On 12 April 1940, two young trainee pilots took a Royal New Zealand Air Force biplane up over the Southern Alps for a climb to altitude. Somewhere near Mount White, the Fairey Gordon spun, recovered, and then flew into the trees on a ridge. It flipped...
Boeing Q3 2026 Deliveries: 161 Jets and a Record Run for the 737 MAX
Share this story Boeing delivered 161 commercial aircraft in the third quarter of 2026, the company announced on 13 October. That is one more than in the same quarter a year earlier, which sounds unexciting until you look at what is inside the number: the most 737 MAX...
Air India AI2030: 787 Diverted to Jaipur After a Squawk 7500 Alert
Share this story Less than a day after a Corendon Boeing 737 squawked the hijack code over Europe, it happened again, this time over India. On the morning of Wednesday, 14 October 2026, Air India flight AI2030 from Frankfurt to Delhi transmitted squawk 7500, the...
Vickers Swallow: Barnes Wallis’s Tailless Swing-Wing Supersonic Jet
Share this story Barnes Wallis is remembered for the bouncing bomb. In the decade after the war he worked on something stranger: an aircraft with no tail at all, steered only by moving its wings. The Vickers Swallow was meant to fly from Britain to Australia without...
Dead Reckoning, LORAN and INS: How Pilots Fly Without GPS
Share this story The first sign is almost always the same. The magenta line on the navigation display does not vanish dramatically; it simply stops agreeing with itself. A position jumps a few miles sideways. The autopilot shrugs. Somewhere in the stack, a box decides...
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