Share this story On 20 May 2023, in a hotel ballroom in Reno, a 75-year-old man finished telling a story he had told several hundred times, stepped away from the lectern, and collapsed. There were doctors in the audience. He died at the hospital that night. Brian Shul...
Share this story On 19 February 1928, a 20-year-old German woman climbed into the cockpit of a Junkers F.13 named Kiek in die Welt — Berlin dialect for “look in the world” — and flew it for Lufthansa. She is generally credited as the first...
Share this story On the morning of 20 April 1933, in the Tanezrouft, Bill Lancaster took out a fuel card and wrote what he knew would be his last message. He had been down in the Sahara for eight days. He had no water left. Exactly one year earlier, to the day, a man...
Share this story Star Alliance has 25-odd member airlines and access to more than a thousand airport lounges around the world. It owns six of them. Six, in twenty-nine years: Los Angeles, Amsterdam Schiphol, Paris Charles de Gaulle, Buenos Aires Ezeiza, Rio de Janeiro...
Share this story In November 2024, the United States sent two B-52H bombers to fly over the Bahrain International Airshow. One of them then parked on the static display, the first time a B-52 had done so at Sakhir. Nobody pretended it was a routine appearance. It was...
Share this story At 23:34:49 on the night of 1 July 2002, the collision avoidance system aboard a Tupolev Tu-154M over southern Germany told its crew to climb. Seconds later the air traffic controller told them to descend. They descended. On the Boeing 757 converging...
Share this story Thomas McGuire wrote the rule himself. Never take a P-38 into a turning fight at low altitude. He put it in a manual the Fifth Air Force distributed to its pilots. On 7 January 1945, at three hundred feet over Negros Island, he broke it deliberately,...
Share this story Britain had been at war for three days. At quarter past six on the morning of 6 September 1939, a radar station on the Essex coast reported unidentified aircraft approaching at high altitude over West Mersea. There were no German aircraft. The plots...
Share this story The video is short, silent and shot from the nose of the drone. A hardened airfield apron slides into frame. Then an aircraft, parked, wings swept forward, with a large white 49 on the intake. Then the picture ends. Ukraine’s Defence...
Share this story A US Air Force casualty assistance officer told the widow of a major killed in a KC-135 crash that certain combat-related benefits were not available to her family, because — in his words — the United States has not declared war. That is...
Share this story On a Tuesday evening in September 1909, in the hills behind Piedmont, California, a Chinese machinist took off in a biplane he had designed, built and powered with an engine he had also built, and flew an elliptical circuit around a hilltop for about...
Share this story She had held a pilot’s licence for thirteen months and had forty hours of flying in her logbook, total. The aeroplane was a wood-and-fabric trainer with an eighty-horsepower rotary engine and a service ceiling of about 4,300 metres. Aconcagua,...
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