Share this story Tomorrow, as America’s 250th birthday flyovers thunder across the country, watch for the moment the crowd goes quiet. Four jets approach in perfect formation — and then one pulls up, streaming away from the others, climbing alone toward...
Share this story On April Fools’ Day 2001, seventy miles off China’s Hainan Island, a Chinese fighter pilot misjudged his third close pass at an American spy plane by a few feet — and nearly started a war. The collision sheared his J-8 interceptor in...
Share this story For more than half a century, the Boeing 747 was the largest and most recognisable commercial aircraft on Earth. From its first flight in 1969 to its final delivery in January 2023, the “Queen of the Skies” carried billions of passengers,...
Share this story A fighter pilot pulling 7G in a turning engagement has roughly three seconds to acquire a target, compute a firing solution, and press the trigger. Looking down at cockpit instruments during those three seconds means looking away from the threat — and...
Share this story Share this story China has grounded all general aviation nationwide — private light aircraft, business jets, flight schools, parachute clubs, and glider operations — after a small single-engine plane crashed into the CITIC Tower in central Beijing on...
NASA’s X-59 QueSST aircraft, the direct descendant of the SSBD programme, broke the sound barrier for the first time in June 2026 — designed to produce a gentle thump instead of a thunderclap. (NASA) If you have ever seen a photo of the Shaped Sonic Boom...
Hoy hace cincuenta años, el 1 de julio de 1976, el Museo Nacional del Aire y el Espacio del Smithsonian abrió sus puertas en el National Mall de Washington, D.C. Fue un regalo del bicentenario a una nación que acababa de llevar hombres a la Luna, ganar una carrera espacial y construir una...
El 10 de marzo de 2026, más de 400 clientes, socios y ejecutivos de la aviación se reunieron en una nueva nave de producción en Bordeaux-Mérignac, donde Dassault Aviation presentó el Falcon 10X, el avión de negocios más grande, con mayor alcance y tecnológicamente más avanzado...
El 30 de junio, un Boeing 737-800 de S7 Airlines se salió de la pista en el aeropuerto de Mirny, en la República de Sajá (Rusia), y quedó varado en el lodo, más allá de la superficie pavimentada. Los 173 pasajeros y los seis miembros de la tripulación salieron ilesos. Sin embargo, el incidente, clasificado como confidencial...
Share this story Every aircraft on this list looked, on paper, like a brilliant idea. Each had serious money, serious engineering and serious ambition behind it. And each ended the same way: cancelled, scrapped or quietly buried after burning through a fortune,...
Share this story There is expensive, and then there is “costs more than Air Force One.” The VH-71 Kestrel, the helicopter that was supposed to become the next Marine One, somehow managed the second one. By the time anyone added it all up, the bill for 28...
Share this story The Wi-Fi on your next Alaska or Hawaiian flight may now be faster than the connection in your living room. Alaska Air Group says roughly 150 of its aircraft are flying with SpaceX’s Starlink internet — and for a lot of passengers, it is...
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