Kegworth: The Crew Shut Down the Good Engine
On a freezing January evening in 1989, a nearly new Boeing 737 fell out of the sky less than a kilometre short of the runway and struck the embankment of the M1 motorway. Forty-seven of the 126 people on board died. The cruel twist: the engine that had failed was...
Etihad Flies the Silk Road to Tashkent
On August 9, an Etihad Airways Airbus A320 lifted out of Abu Dhabi bound for Tashkent, reopening a link to the old Silk Road — and, with it, an entire country’s worth of onward connections. The new daily nonstop is only half the story. Paired with a...
Southwest Turns Burbank Into a Hawaii Gateway
Hollywood Burbank Airport is the little airport that Angelenos love precisely because it is not LAX. Two terminals, a walk across the tarmac to the stairs, quick hops to Las Vegas and the Bay Area. It is not the sort of place you associate with a five-and-a-half-hour...
Lilium’s Air Taxis Land in a Museum
The dream was an electric jet that would whisk you between cities in near silence, lifting off vertically from a rooftop and cruising on stubby wings packed with tiny fans. Lilium, the Munich start-up that raised well over a billion dollars chasing that dream,...
Airbus Keeps Its Lead Over Boeing
July was, by Airbus’s recent standards, a quiet month. The European planemaker handed over 67 aircraft to 39 customers — a step down from 89 in June and 81 in May. And yet, halfway-plus through 2026, Airbus is still comfortably in front.The running total...
The Plane With a Wing Like an Umbrella
In 1934, Americans looked up over Miami and saw something that made no sense: an aeroplane flying under what appeared to be a giant garden umbrella. It was not a stunt or a cartoon. It was the Nemeth Parasol, one of the strangest aircraft that ever actually left the...
The Helicopter That’s Barely an Aircraft
Most aircraft try to look sleek. The Sikorsky S-64 Skycrane does not bother. It is, essentially, a flying spine: a long open backbone with two turbine engines and a six-blade rotor bolted on top, a cockpit at the front, tall stalky legs, and a hook underneath where a...
The Airliner That First Flew Above the Weather
Every time you settle into an airliner seat at 35,000 feet, sealed comfortably against air so thin and cold it would kill you in minutes, you are enjoying an idea that first flew on the last day of 1938. Its name was the Boeing 307 Stratoliner, and almost nobody...
The Smallest 737 MAX Is Finally Certified
After a certification saga that outlasted a pandemic, three Boeing CEOs and the better part of a decade, the smallest jet in the 737 MAX family is finally legal to carry passengers. On 3 August, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration granted Boeing an amended type...
US-Bangla’s $1.5 Billion Bet on Boeing
Bangladesh does not often make the big Boeing headlines. That changed at a hotel ballroom in Dhaka, where the country’s largest private airline quietly placed the biggest bet of its twelve-year life. At the “Beyond with Boeing” event on 29 July,...
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