Share this story In the past decade, something unprecedented has begun happening in the skies above the world’s busiest airports. Commercial aircraft—enormous machines carrying hundreds of passengers—are increasingly sharing airspace with small, unmanned devices. The...
Share this story There is no safer manoeuvre in aviation than a go-around. The data is clear. The accidents prevented by a go-around vastly outnumber any accidents caused by performing one. And yet, pilots worldwide resist it with a stubbornness that baffles anyone...
Share this story Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) is celebrating eight decades of aviation history with a striking tribute to its heritage. To mark 80 years in the skies, the airline has unveiled a special all-blue Airbus A330-300, featuring a completely reimagined livery...
Share this story Your first night flight is a threshold moment in any pilot’s journey. Somewhere between sundown and complete darkness, the airport transforms into something unrecognizable. The runway that felt familiar at noon now glows like a jeweled runway of...
Share this story Aviation is undergoing a quiet revolution, and one of its most promising frontiers involves replacing fossil fuels with clean energy. ZeroAvia, a British-American aerospace company, is leading this charge with hydrogen-electric powertrains designed...
Share this story On April 2, at Cotswold Airport in the English countryside, test pilot Paul Stone climbed into a machine that looked like nothing that had ever taken off from a runway before. It had wings like an aeroplane, rotors like a helicopter, and the quiet hum...
Share this story America’s flight training ecosystem is under siege from two directions simultaneously: regulatory overhaul from above and economic pressure from below. The FAA just released a 471-page modernization proposal for Part 141 pilot schools on April 1,...
Share this story At 3:27 PM on January 15, 2009, US Airways Flight 1549 encountered a flock of Canada geese shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia. Both engines ingested birds at nearly full throttle. Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger had 208 seconds to...
Share this story You cannot choose your own callsign. That’s the first rule, the most sacred law of fighter pilot culture. You can beg for it, suggest it, lobby the naming committee with bribes and flattery—it won’t matter. Your callsign will be assigned...
Share this story At 3:27 PM on January 15, 2009, US Airways Flight 1549 encountered a flock of Canada geese shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia. Both engines ingested birds at nearly full throttle. Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger had 208 seconds to...
Share this story It’s 2200 hours over the Persian Gulf. The Airbus A320 rolls into the takeoff, engines howling at full thrust. Everything feels normal. Everything is normal. But inside the flight deck, gravity itself is lying. The pilots of Gulf Air Flight 072...
Share this story The global aviation system is quietly fracturing under pressure most passengers will never see coming. Since Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz in late February, the world’s most critical chokepoint for energy has created shockwaves...
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