Share this story Michael O’Leary was asked on Wednesday whether Ryanair would add a fuel surcharge. He said no. Then he explained, without apparent embarrassment, that he would quite like jet fuel to get more expensive, because it would kill his competitors...
Share this story On Thursday, 17 September, a two-seat trainer lifted off from Centennial Airport near Denver at 9:45 in the morning, flew a planned test profile for about six minutes and touched down at 9:51. Nothing about that is remarkable except what was not...
Share this story The nightmare scenario in single-pilot aviation has always been the same. One person up front, one engine out there, and nobody in the cabin who knows what a glideslope is. If the pilot stops flying, everyone on board has a problem with no solution....
Share this story A US Navy photograph from 1942 shows seven F4F Wildcats parked on grass. Two have their wings spread. Five have them folded back along the fuselage, and those five occupy roughly the same frontage as the two. That photograph is the entire argument for...
Share this story On 17 June 2014, RAF Typhoons from 3 (Fighter) Squadron were scrambled to intercept four separate groups of Russian aircraft over the Baltic. The RAF’s own account of what they found reads like this: a Tu-22 Backfire bomber, four Su-27 Flankers,...
Share this story Heart Aerospace has thrown away its own aeroplane and drawn a better one. On Wednesday the Swedish company unveiled the ES-36, a 36-seat hybrid-electric regional airliner that replaces the ES-30 it has been promoting since 2022. Six more seats, 1,415...
Share this story Congress put $12.5 billion into rebuilding American air traffic control in 2025. On Tuesday the Transportation Secretary told a Washington audience that the real number is $42.5 billion. Sean Duffy said the administration will ask Congress for another...
Share this story A year ago Turkish Airlines said it wanted up to 225 Boeing aircraft. Then the deal stalled, the airline started talking publicly about Airbus instead, and the whole thing looked like it might come apart over engines. On Wednesday it was signed, in...
Share this story At eight o’clock on Wednesday evening, somebody at Berlin Brandenburg Airport looked up and saw a drone over the northern runway. Twenty minutes later German air traffic control closed the airspace. Arrivals were sent to Dresden and Leipzig,...
Share this story A sixty-six-year-old captain walks out to an Air New Zealand jet in Auckland, flies a domestic sector, and goes home. Entirely legal. Put the same captain on a service to Los Angeles and the flight cannot depart. There is no single retirement age for...
Share this story On the second night of the war in Afghanistan, a B-2 Spirit lifted off from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, flew west across the Pacific, bombed targets in Afghanistan, and landed at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. Its two pilots had been...
Share this story Radar does one simple thing extremely fast. It shouts into the dark, listens for an echo, and times how long the echo took to come back. Everything else is refinement. The shout is a pulse of radio energy. The echo is a vanishingly small fraction of...
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