LOT Polish Airlines Sues Boeing Over Hidden MAX Risks
Share this story The 737 MAX crisis produced some of the most consequential aviation litigation in history. There were settlements with the families of the 346 victims. There were billion-dollar government penalties. There were executive depositions, congressional...
526 Disruptions in One Day: Summer Air Travel Chaos Begins
Share this story Summer hasn’t officially started, but the chaos arrived early. On May 12, 2026, a cascade of delays, cancellations, and ground stops swept across American airports like a storm front — which, in many cases, it literally was. Phoenix Sky Harbor...
Seven Minutes, JFK to Manhattan: Joby’s Air Taxi Flies NYC
Share this story On a clear Sunday morning in late April, a small white aircraft with six tilting propellers lifted off from John F. Kennedy International Airport and headed northwest toward the gleaming towers of Midtown Manhattan. Seven minutes later, it touched...
EMALS, AAG, and the Catapult That Reinvented the Aircraft Carrier
Share this story It is 0200 hours in the Eastern Mediterranean. The flight deck of USS Gerald R. Ford smells faintly of jet fuel and seawater. A yellow-shirted Air Boss raises an arm. Three hundred feet of catapult — not steam, not for the first time in U.S. naval...
150 A220s for AirAsia — Largest Single Order Ever
Share this story The Airbus A220 has been the most underestimated commercial airliner of the past decade — a Canadian-designed jet (originally the Bombardier C Series) that quietly piled up loyal customers and stellar dispatch reliability while the headlines went to...
Elon Musk Flew an L-39 — So Can You
Share this story Before the rockets. Before the electric cars became mainstream. Before Mars, before the tunnels, before the social media platform — there was a young South African entrepreneur in the Nevada desert, strapped into the cockpit of a Cold War-era jet,...
The Medical Exam Every Pilot Dreads
Share this story Somewhere in a strip-mall medical office, a prospective airline pilot is peeing into a cup, squinting at eye charts, and trying not to think about the fact that their entire career — years of training, tens of thousands of dollars in flight school...
Embraer Just Had Its Best Quarter Ever — $1.4 Billion in Q1
Share this story Brazil doesn’t always get credit for aerospace excellence. But on May 8, 2026, Embraer — headquartered in Sao Jose dos Campos — posted the best first quarter in its history. Revenue: $1.4 billion. Growth: 31% year-on-year. Operating profit: up...
Pilots vs. Maintenance Engineers: The Funniest Logbook Entries Ever
Share this story Every profession has its internal language — the private jokes, the eye-rolls, the sarcastic notes passed between colleagues who understand each other completely. In aviation, that language lives in the aircraft logbook. Specifically, in the...
The First Transatlantic Flight Wasn’t Lindbergh — It Was the NC-4 in 1919
Share this story On the evening of 27 May 1919, a lumbering four-engine flying boat descended through the Atlantic haze and touched down on the Tagus Estuary outside Lisbon, Portugal. Its hull was salt-stained. Its crew of six had not slept properly in two days. And...
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