The Catalina Flying Boat Rises Again
Share this story Eighty years ago, a fat-bellied flying boat called the PBY Catalina rescued downed airmen, sank submarines and crossed oceans on missions that lasted a full day and night. Its type certificate has quietly survived ever since. Now someone wants to...
Boeing and Airbus Fight Over 100 Jets
Share this story The fiercest duel at this year’s Farnborough International Airshow will not be flown by any display pilot. It will be fought across a conference table, over roughly one hundred single-aisle jets and the signature of one Dublin-based leasing...
He Couldn’t Shoot Them Down
Share this story At 27,000 feet over Germany, the air was minus 60 degrees and Charlie Brown’s bomber was dying. Half its engines were gone or failing. The nose was blown open to the wind. The tail gunner was dead, other crewmen were bleeding on the freezing deck, and...
Canada Gets a Front-Row Seat to GCAP
Share this story Canada already knows what its next fighter looks like: the F-35A, dozens of which are on order. And yet Ottawa has just reached for a very different aircraft — one being designed in London, Rome and Tokyo. Reporting on July 15 said Canada has agreed...
The Orlando Flight That Went Nowhere
Share this story The passengers on Virgin Atlantic flight VS135 boarded at Heathrow on Monday afternoon expecting palm trees and theme parks. Five hours later they climbed down the same set of stairs at the same London airport, no closer to Orlando than when they...
Farnborough 2026 Sold Out — Twice Over
Share this story Every couple of years a former RAF airfield in Hampshire becomes the centre of the aviation universe for five days. From July 20, it happens again — and the 2026 edition of the Farnborough International Airshow is shaping up to be the biggest in the...
A $7.6 Billion Bidding War for easyJet
Share this story Europe’s most recognisable low-cost airline has become the object of a transatlantic tug-of-war. On 10 July 2026, the board of easyJet told the market it was no longer minded to recommend a takeover proposal from the American investment firm...
Five Million Fans and a Scramble for Seats
Share this story A World Cup is, among many other things, an enormous logistics problem with a ball in the middle of it. The 2026 edition — the first hosted jointly by the United States, Canada and Mexico, spread across 16 cities and three countries — is the largest...
Philippine Airlines Wants Both: 787s and A350s
Share this story When an airline picks a new long-haul jet, it usually picks a side. Boeing or Airbus. Dreamliner or A350. The engineering, the training, the spare parts, the pilot type-ratings — everything gets simpler when you commit to one family. Philippine...
Boeing Came Out Swinging. Airbus Answered.
Share this story For most of the last five years, the Boeing-versus-Airbus delivery race wasn’t a race at all. Crisis after crisis — the 737 MAX grounding, a pandemic, a factory-quality reckoning after a door plug blew off a jet in flight — left Boeing limping...
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