Share this story Telluride Regional sits on a mesa in south-west Colorado at 9,069.7 feet, which makes it the highest commercial-service airport in the United States by a wide margin. The runway is 7,111 feet long and ends, at both ends, in air. The FAA’s own...
Share this story Stealth is an argument about angles. Shape an airframe so that almost everything a radar sends at it leaves in some other direction, coat what is left so that part of the remainder turns into heat, and the energy coming back to the transmitter falls...
Share this story De Havilland Canada publishes a short-field take-off figure for the Twin Otter: 366 metres. The declared take-off run available on runway 12 at Saba is 349 metres. Runway 30 gives you 355. The scheduled aeroplane that serves the island needs more...
Share this story In the first week of October 2025, Munich Airport shut down twice in roughly twenty-four hours. The first closure stranded around 3,000 passengers, the second about 6,500. Police mounted a large operation on both nights and found nobody. A week...
Share this story In the 1991 Gulf War, the U.S. Air Force learned an awkward lesson. Its laser-guided bombs were superb in clear skies, but dust, smoke, fog and cloud could blind them, and most of the bombs American aircraft dropped were still unguided. Air &...
Share this story Somewhere in Dublin, a company that does not fly a single passenger has just bought 250 jetliners. On Friday, 9 October 2026, aircraft lessor Avolon announced firm orders for 140 Boeing 737 MAX and 110 Airbus aircraft, plus options on 100 more. If the...
Share this story At 12:56 on Friday afternoon, the ground under southern Panama lurched hard enough to empty one of Latin America’s biggest connecting hubs. A magnitude 7.7 earthquake, centred on the Azuero Peninsula, shook Panama City about 200 kilometres away,...
Share this story The Kuwait theatre, early 1991, after dark. Two F-111Fs circle at medium altitude over a sixty-by-thirty-mile box of desert. In the right seat, a weapon systems officer stares at a small black-and-white screen where the sand has gone cool and grey and...
Share this story Twenty-seven years ago today, on 9 October 1999, a black aeroplane with NASA 844 on its fin took off from Edwards Air Force Base for an open-house display and landed again. Nobody knew it was the last flight any SR-71 Blackbird would ever make. The...
Share this story Ten years ago tonight, at about seven in the evening on 9 October 2016, the destroyer USS Mason was north of the Bab el-Mandeb strait in the Red Sea when two missiles came off the Houthi-held coast of Yemen. Mason fired two SM-2s and an Evolved...
Share this story At 13:20 UTC on 17 July 2014, a Boeing 777 in Malaysia Airlines colours was cruising at 33,000 feet over the wheat fields of the Donetsk region, a little under three hours out of Amsterdam. The cockpit voice recorder was running. The crew had no...
Share this story The seatbelt sign has been on for twenty minutes. Below the wing, the same patchwork of Hertfordshire fields drifts past for the second time, then the third. The aircraft banks gently right, levels, flies straight for a minute, banks right again....
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