Lilium’s Air Taxis Land in a Museum

Liliums Lufttaxis landen in einem Museum

Share this story 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...
Weihnachten 1938: Das Atom spaltet sich

Weihnachten 1938: Das Atom spaltet sich

Share this story Part 3 of The Race for the Bomb, an Afterburner focus series. Part 2 followed the exodus of Europe’s Jewish scientists. Now, in a Berlin laboratory those laws had just emptied, the uranium atom comes apart. Kungälv, on the Swedish west coast,...
Wizz Air hisst seine Flagge in Sizilien

Wizz Air hisst seine Flagge in Sizilien

Share this story Sicily just became the latest front in Europe’s low-cost air war. On August 1, 2026, Wizz Air based its first aircraft at Palermo’s Falcone Borsellino Airport, and two days later threw a launch party with the mayor and a planeload of...
Starlux erreicht erstmals Europa

Starlux erreicht erstmals Europa

Share this story Just after midnight on August 1, 2026, an Airbus A350-900 lifted off from Taipei and pointed its nose at Central Europe. In the left-hand seat sat K.W. Chang — not a rostered captain, but the chairman of the airline, flying his own inaugural....