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...
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...
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...
Share this story There is a shipping container somewhere in the world right now that does not look like much. Steel box. Corner castings. Maybe a dent or two from a rough crossing. You have seen a million of them stacked at ports, rolling down highways on flatbeds,...
Share this story There is a sound that no aviation fan forgets. A rising howl of twin Pratt & Whitney TF30s at full afterburner, the variable-geometry wings sweeping back as the jet accelerates from a carrier deck at a rate that seems almost physically offensive —...
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...
Sie landete am 21. Mai 1932 auf einem Feld außerhalb von Londonderry in Nordirland, und der Bauer, der über die Wiese gerannt kam, fragte sie, ob sie von weit her gekommen sei. “Aus Amerika”, antwortete sie. Sie war 14 Stunden und 56 Minuten in einem Flugzeug unterwegs gewesen.
Share this story The aircraft was 6.07 metres long. It carried a 1,200-kilogram warhead in its nose. The cockpit held only rudimentary instruments — an airspeed indicator, an altimeter, an attitude indicator — and the controls to fire three solid-fuel rocket motors....
Bessie Coleman betrat jede Flugschule in Chicago und wurde überall abgewiesen. Es war das Jahr 1919. Keine amerikanische Flugschule wollte eine Schülerin aufnehmen, die schwarz und eine Frau war. Die meisten lehnten sie allein schon aus einem dieser Gründe ab. Eine weniger integre Person hätte...
Share this story On 27 September 1956, Captain Mel Apt of the US Air Force became the first human being to fly faster than three times the speed of sound. He was at 65,000 feet over Edwards Air Force Base, in California, dropped from beneath a Boeing B-50...
Der Morgen des 16. April 1912 war perfekt – zumindest schien es so. Harriet Quimby stand in Folkestone, England, in ihrem charakteristischen pflaumenfarbenen Fliegeranzug und bereitete sich darauf vor, als erste Frau den Ärmelkanal zu überfliegen. Es gab nur ein Problem: Nebel war aufgezogen ….
Share this story You know what a B-17 looks like. Four radial engines. The towering tail fin. Glass nose. Heavy-bomber Americana, stamped onto a thousand black-and-white photographs of the daylight raids over Germany. Now picture one with a fifth engine bolted to its...
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