The World’s Longest Flight Just Got a Date
Share this story On 2 June 2026, a bare green-primer jet lifted off from Toulouse, climbed past 41,000 feet, and flew for three hours and forty-three minutes before coming home. It wore no airline colours yet — just a working title stencilled down the fuselage: “First...
Night Carrier Landings: The Most Dangerous Routine in Aviation
Share this story Here’s something the U.S. Navy doesn’t put in the recruitment brochures: the hardest thing a naval aviator will ever do isn’t dogfighting, or dodging surface-to-air missiles, or threading a low-level attack run through a mountain...
First Crewed Solid-State Battery Flight Shatters Electric Aviation’s Biggest Barrier
Share this story On a muggy Florida morning in early June, a modified motorized glider rolled onto the runway at Zephyrhills Municipal Airport and changed the trajectory of electric aviation. At the controls was Miguel Iturmendi — test pilot, company founder, and the...
What Happens When a Fighter Jet’s Engine Fails
Share this story Every fighter pilot trains for it. Most pray they’ll never experience it. The moment a jet engine — the machine that keeps you flying at 500 knots and 30,000 feet — stops working. Whether it’s a compressor stall that sounds like a cannon...
X-59 Hits Mach 1.4 at Quiet Boom Altitude
Share this story NASA’s X-59 Quesst aircraft has reached the speed and altitude it was built to fly. On June 12, 2026, test pilot Jim “Clue” Less pushed the needle-nosed experimental jet to Mach 1.4 at 55,000 feet over Edwards Air Force Base — the...
The Spruce Goose: Hughes’s Giant That Flew Once
Share this story On November 2, 1947, the largest flying boat ever built lifted off the water of Long Beach Harbor, flew for about a mile at seventy feet, and never flew again. In that single minute, Howard Hughes won an argument that had nearly destroyed him. The...
Casablanca to LA: Royal Air Maroc Flies Into the World Cup
Share this story Royal Air Maroc is about to put Casablanca on the nonstop map to Los Angeles — and the timing is no accident. Morocco’s flag carrier is launching a Casablanca–Los Angeles route, flown three times a week on the Boeing 787, just as the...
Air Taxis Clear the Last Big Hurdle
Share this story After a decade of promises, the electric air taxi is finally about to carry paying passengers in the United States — and it could happen this summer. The two front-runners have cleared the hardest gates yet. Joby Aviation has reached stage four...
The 2026 Transatlantic Boom: 37 New Routes
Share this story The Atlantic is getting crowded. In 2026, airlines are pouring new routes across the ocean at a pace not seen in years — and many of them are flying on a single aisle. Industry trackers count roughly three dozen new transatlantic routes...
What Pulling 9G Does to Your Body: The Physiology of Fighter Jet G-Forces
A description echoed by experienced fighter pilots and centrifuge instructors Share this story At 9G, your blood weighs nine times what it normally does. Your arms feel like they are filled with wet cement. Your vision collapses from the edges inward until you are...
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