The Strangest Things Found Inside Aircraft During Maintenance
Share this story Aircraft mechanics see things that the travelling public never hears about. Behind the polished cabin walls and beneath the gleaming fuselage panels lies a hidden world where forgotten sandwiches fossilize in inaccessible corners, wildlife takes up...
The Strangest Medical Disqualifiers for Pilot Licenses: From Color Blindness to Snoring
Share this story Most people assume that becoming a pilot requires good eyesight and a steady hand. That much is true. What most people don’t realize is just how deep the medical rabbit hole goes — and how some of the conditions that can ground you are genuinely...
The XB-70 Valkyrie: When a PR Photo Shoot Killed the Fastest Bomber Ever Built
Share this story The North American XB-70 Valkyrie was supposed to be the future of strategic bombing — a six-engine colossus that could outrun anything in the sky at three times the speed of sound. Instead, it became one of aviation’s most expensive...
$12 Billion Burned, Zero Passengers Carried: The eVTOL Cash Bonfire
Share this story Twelve billion dollars. Gone. The top ten eVTOL companies have collectively burned through $12 billion in investor capital — four times what was lost during the very light jet craze of the 2000s, and more than Boeing earned even in its most profitable...
Die Fairey Rotodyne: Großbritanniens Hubschrauber-Passagierflugzeug, das durch Lärm zerstört wurde
Share this story City to city, with no airports. Take off from a small concrete pad in central London, climb vertically, transition forward, cruise at 190 miles per hour, descend, land on a concrete pad in central Paris. No taxi, no train, no airport security. In June...
Wenn ein Hubschrauber ein Passagierflugzeug anhebt: Der unglaubliche Mi-26-Schleuderhubschrauber
Share this story The photograph looks fake. A short-fuselage Soviet-era twin-engine airliner — a Tupolev Tu-134, the workhorse of Aeroflot domestic routes for thirty years — is hanging in midair beneath a single helicopter. The Tu-134 weighs about 28 tonnes empty. It...
Die US-Marine baute zwei flugfähige Flugzeugträger – und verlor sie dann beide.
Share this story The most ambitious naval aviation concept the United States ever fielded was not the nuclear-powered supercarrier. It was a 785-foot helium airship with an interior hangar bay full of biplane fighters that could be launched and recovered in flight....
80 Years Ago Today, the DHC-1 Chipmunk Took Off and Taught Half the World to Fly
Share this story On 22 May 1946, in a hangar at Downsview Airport just outside Toronto, a small all-metal trainer painted in pale yellow finished its last ground checks, taxied to the runway, and lifted off into Canadian spring weather. The pilot was Pat Fillingham, a...
Riyadh Air Will Fly Its First Passenger on 1 July — Saudi Arabia’s Boldest Bet
Share this story For three years, the world’s aviation press has watched Riyadh Air with the kind of attention usually reserved for a celebrity divorce. The airline has spent more on launch advertising than most mid-size carriers spend on a fleet. It has cut deals...
The Busiest Airport on Earth Wants to Fire the TSA
Share this story For decades, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International has been the busiest airport in the world. Over 100 million passengers a year. The single most important screening checkpoint in the United States. And throughout the recent government shutdown,...
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