Share this story Here’s something the U.S. Navy doesn’t put in the recruitment brochures: the hardest thing a naval aviator will ever do isn’t dogfighting, or dodging surface-to-air missiles, or threading a low-level attack run through a mountain...
Share this story On a muggy Florida morning in early June, a modified motorized glider rolled onto the runway at Zephyrhills Municipal Airport and changed the trajectory of electric aviation. At the controls was Miguel Iturmendi — test pilot, company founder, and the...
Share this story Every fighter pilot trains for it. Most pray they’ll never experience it. The moment a jet engine — the machine that keeps you flying at 500 knots and 30,000 feet — stops working. Whether it’s a compressor stall that sounds like a cannon...
Share this story NASA’s X-59 Quesst aircraft has reached the speed and altitude it was built to fly. On June 12, 2026, test pilot Jim “Clue” Less pushed the needle-nosed experimental jet to Mach 1.4 at 55,000 feet over Edwards Air Force Base — the...
Share this story On November 2, 1947, the largest flying boat ever built lifted off the water of Long Beach Harbor, flew for about a mile at seventy feet, and never flew again. In that single minute, Howard Hughes won an argument that had nearly destroyed him. The...
Share this story Royal Air Maroc is about to put Casablanca on the nonstop map to Los Angeles — and the timing is no accident. Morocco’s flag carrier is launching a Casablanca–Los Angeles route, flown three times a week on the Boeing 787, just as the...
Share this story After a decade of promises, the electric air taxi is finally about to carry paying passengers in the United States — and it could happen this summer. The two front-runners have cleared the hardest gates yet. Joby Aviation has reached stage four...
Share this story The Atlantic is getting crowded. In 2026, airlines are pouring new routes across the ocean at a pace not seen in years — and many of them are flying on a single aisle. Industry trackers count roughly three dozen new transatlantic routes...
A description echoed by experienced fighter pilots and centrifuge instructors Share this story At 9G, your blood weighs nine times what it normally does. Your arms feel like they are filled with wet cement. Your vision collapses from the edges inward until you are...
Share this story On May 31, 2026, CENTCOM issued a terse statement: Iran had shot down a “U.S. MQ-1 drone” over international waters. The U.S. responded with strikes on Iranian radar and drone command sites on Goruk and Qeshm Island.The internet...
Here’s a number that should terrify anyone who flies in the United States: 76. That’s how many consecutive days American aviation has been disrupted since April 1, 2026 — the longest unbroken streak of chaos since airline deregulation in 1978.And June 15...
Share this story The de Havilland Comet was the most beautiful airliner ever built. It was also the most deadly — and its failures saved more lives than any single aircraft in history. We’ve written about the Comet before — see our earlier piece on its legacy....
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