Share this story Just before midnight on 1 July 2002, two aircraft converged over the Bodensee at 36,000 feet. One was a DHL Boeing 757 freighter climbing out of Bergamo with two pilots aboard. The other was a Bashkirian Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 carrying 69 people from...
Share this story On the evening of 1 February 1985, a Trans World Airlines Boeing 767 pushed back at Boston’s Logan Airport, bound for Paris. To the passengers it was an ordinary red-eye. It was anything but. Sixteen TWA pilots had been through special training...
Share this story Fighter jets keep diaries. They keep them in stencilled paint, just below the cockpit rail, and if you know how to read them they will tell you exactly what kind of year the crews have had. On the Fourth of July, as the Super Hornets of Carrier Air...
Share this story The Boeing 737 freighter working K2 Airways flight 1732 on Tuesday evening was less than an hour from home. It had left Sharjah for Karachi with five crew and a hold full of cargo, a two-hour hop across the Arabian Sea that Pakistani freight operators...
Si miras el costado del barco, lo verás: el fantasma de un avión. Dos alas, un fuselaje, incluso los puntales de un tren de aterrizaje fijo: la silueta a tamaño real de una aeronave, impresa sobre acero naval gris. Es una de las fotografías más extrañas e inquietantes...
En la historia de los aviones de combate, casi nadie recuerda al subcampeón. El avión que pierde la competición recibe una placa en un museo, si tiene suerte, y el ganador se queda con la línea de producción. El Northrop YF-17 Cobra es la gran excepción. Perdió, y luego pasó a...
Hay aviones grandes, y luego estaba el Mriya. Si te paras debajo de un Boeing 747, te sientes pequeño. Si te paras debajo de un An-225, el 747 empieza a parecer pequeño. Durante 33 años existió exactamente una de estas máquinas: un gigante soviético de seis motores construido para un solo...
Share this story In the spring of 1946, in a factory near Pisa that Allied bombers had flattened only months before, an engineer wheeled out a strange little machine — a step-through scooter with a rounded steel body and a small engine tucked by the rear wheel. Enrico...
Share this story Sydney has a new way to reach Asia, and it comes wearing a splash of Malaysian batik on its tail. From 1 July 2026, Batik Air Malaysia flies a daily Airbus A330 between Kuala Lumpur and Sydney — the airline’s fourth city in Australia and a fresh shot...
Share this story In the desert of far-western China, a passing satellite caught something Beijing would much rather keep in the shadows: two enormous stealth flying wings, sitting in the open on a remote airfield — the larger of them nearly as wide as an American B-2...
Share this story A number from a Chinese laboratory has been making the rounds, and it is a striking one: 95 percent. That, according to a computer simulation, is how often a Chengdu J-20 beat an American F-22 Raptor in a fight north of Taiwan. Read a little closer,...
Share this story In March 2026, a silver jet with a wickedly swept wing thundered down a runway near Houston and hauled itself into the Texas sky. It was a North American F-100 Super Sabre — one of only two left flying anywhere on earth — and its return is a good...
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