Airbus A321neo Corrosion Defect Hits More Than 500 Jets
Share this story Somewhere in the second tier of Airbus’s supply chain, a coating was applied too thinly. Not on a wing spar, not on an engine mount — on stringers, the unglamorous aluminium stiffeners that run the length of a fuselage and hold its skin in...
McKinney National Cleared for Airline Flights From November
Share this story Dallas already has one of the busiest airports on earth. On Thursday the FAA decided the region should have another one taking airline passengers, and handed McKinney National Airport a Part 139 operating certificate. McKinney sits about 30 miles...
O’Leary Predicts Europe Ends Up With Four Airlines
Share this story Michael O’Leary was asked on Wednesday whether Ryanair would add a fuel surcharge. He said no. Then he explained, without apparent embarrassment, that he would quite like jet fuel to get more expensive, because it would kill his competitors...
eFlyer 2 Flies at Centennial: Bye Aerospace Starts Flight Tests
Share this story On Thursday, 17 September, a two-seat trainer lifted off from Centennial Airport near Denver at 9:45 in the morning, flew a planned test profile for about six minutes and touched down at 9:51. Nothing about that is remarkable except what was not...
Pilatus PC-12 PRO: The Single-Engine Turboprop That Lands Itself
Share this story The nightmare scenario in single-pilot aviation has always been the same. One person up front, one engine out there, and nobody in the cabin who knows what a glideslope is. If the pilot stops flying, everyone on board has a problem with no solution....
Why Carrier Jets Fold Their Wings, and What It Costs Them
Share this story A US Navy photograph from 1942 shows seven F4F Wildcats parked on grass. Two have their wings spread. Five have them folded back along the fuselage, and those five occupy roughly the same frontage as the two. That photograph is the entire argument for...
Fishbed, Flanker, Fulcrum: How NATO Reporting Names Work
Share this story On 17 June 2014, RAF Typhoons from 3 (Fighter) Squadron were scrambled to intercept four separate groups of Russian aircraft over the Baltic. The RAF’s own account of what they found reads like this: a Tu-22 Backfire bomber, four Su-27 Flankers,...
Heart ES-36: JSX Backs a 36-Seat Hybrid-Electric Airliner
Share this story Heart Aerospace has thrown away its own aeroplane and drawn a better one. On Wednesday the Swedish company unveiled the ES-36, a 36-seat hybrid-electric regional airliner that replaces the ES-30 it has been promoting since 2022. Six more seats, 1,415...
FAA Modernisation: Duffy Asks Congress for $30 Billion More
Share this story Congress put $12.5 billion into rebuilding American air traffic control in 2025. On Tuesday the Transportation Secretary told a Washington audience that the real number is $42.5 billion. Sean Duffy said the administration will ask Congress for another...
Turkish Airlines Signs for 150 Boeing 737 MAX After Engine Fight
Share this story A year ago Turkish Airlines said it wanted up to 225 Boeing aircraft. Then the deal stalled, the airline started talking publicly about Airbus instead, and the whole thing looked like it might come apart over engines. On Wednesday it was signed, in...
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