Share this story On April 2, 2026, test pilot Paul Stone strapped into the cockpit of an aircraft that took off like a helicopter, tilted forward, and flew away like a plane. He was at Cotswold Airport in Gloucestershire, England. The aircraft was Vertical...
Share this story The price of Jet-A fuel in the United States averaged $8.63 per gallon in April 2026. That is $1.77 more than March. It is $2.03 more than a year ago. And it is more than double what it cost before Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz in late February....
Share this story It began life as a Canadian underdog. Bombardier’s CSeries was the aircraft that wasn’t supposed to survive — a small, clean-sheet design from a company that had never built anything bigger than a regional jet, taking on Boeing and Airbus on their...
Share this story At 8:07 PM Eastern Time on April 10, 2026, a blackened capsule trailing a wake of superheated plasma punched through Earth’s atmosphere at 25,000 miles per hour and splashed into the Pacific Ocean forty miles off the coast of San Diego. Inside were...
On June 15, 1919, at 8:40 in the morning, a Vickers Vimy biplane with two Rolls-Royce Eagle engines and no radio contact with the outside world nosed down through the clouds over the west coast of Ireland — and drove itself straight into a bog at Derrygimlagh, near...
Share this story The student pilot finishes a practice session, pulls off a headset, and opens an app. Within seconds, an AI has analysed the flight, identified three areas where technique drifted, cross-referenced the errors with FAA Airman Certification Standards,...
Share this story Five years ago, inflight Wi-Fi was a luxury that cost $8 an hour, dropped every ten minutes, and made loading a single email feel like an achievement. In 2026, airlines are racing to offer passengers something that would have seemed absurd a decade...
Share this story The video opens with a clip of an esports tournament. Screens glow. Controllers click. A crowd roars. Then the camera cuts to an air traffic control tower, and a voice asks the question the Federal Aviation Administration hopes will change American...
Share this story For forty days, the skies over Iraq were empty. No airliners cruised overhead at 35,000 feet. No cargo planes descended into Baghdad International. No transit fees were collected, no passengers moved, no overflights logged. From late February to April...
Share this story Major Sarah Chen flew F-16s for eleven years. Two combat deployments. 200 combat hours. An instructor qualification and a Top Gun equivalent weapons school graduation patch on her shoulder. She was the kind of pilot the Air Force cannot afford to...
Share this story The handle is between your legs. You have been told about it in training, shown diagrams, watched videos. But nothing prepares you for the moment you actually reach for it. In that fraction of a second, you are making the most consequential decision...
On the morning of July 25, 1909, Louis Blériot climbed into a 25-horsepower monoplane that he had built himself, pointed it north across the grey water of the English Channel, and disappeared into the fog. He had no compass. He had no landmarks. He had no way to know...
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