Share this story Landing gear failures usually make headlines on touchdown, at speed, with a crew fighting to keep a heavy aircraft straight. This one happened with the aircraft standing still. On Friday morning, 23 October 2026, the left wing landing gear of a...
Share this story To a generation of fighter pilots and the millions who wanted to be one, he will always be Viper: the calm, moustached commanding officer of the Navy Fighter Weapons School in Top Gun, the man who told Maverick the truth about his father. Tom...
Share this story You have just finished your drink, the seat backs are coming up and suddenly the cabin goes dark. No, the airline is not trying to set a romantic mood or save electricity. When crews dim the cabin lights for takeoff and landing, they are preparing...
Share this story On 14 September 1939, two weeks after war broke out in Europe, a 50-year-old engineer in a business suit and a felt hat climbed into an open frame of steel tubes in Stratford, Connecticut. Ropes tied the machine to the ground. When Igor Sikorsky...
Share this story Fly from New York to London overnight and you land at breakfast time feeling as if someone has stolen a night of your life. Fly back and you arrive tired, but somehow it is easier to shake off. That is not your imagination, and it is not just the...
Share this story A heat-seeking missile chases something it can feel: the hot exhaust of an engine. A radar-guided missile chases something it cannot see at all until a radar wave bounces off it. That difference is why radar missiles can kill from beyond visual range,...
Share this story In the mid-1930s, C.R. Smith, the president of American Airlines, picked up the telephone and would not put it down. On the other end was Donald Douglas, who had a perfectly good airliner, the DC-2, and no particular wish to build another. Smith...
Share this story Romania has lost one airline to the courts this month already. On Thursday, 22 October 2026, a second one walked into the courthouse, this time insisting it would walk out again.Dan Air, the Bucharest-based carrier that flies a small fleet of Airbus...
Share this story On a normal Friday, Taiwan’s airports are among the busiest in East Asia. On Friday, 23 October 2026, most of the island simply stopped, and the flights stopped with it.Typhoon Champi, at one point a super typhoon and one of the strongest storms...
Share this story For seven years the Thanh Hoa Bridge simply refused to fall. American aircraft flew more than 870 sorties against the “Dragon’s Jaw” south of Hanoi and lost 11 aircraft doing it. Then, in the spring of 1972, a handful of Phantom...
Share this story Airports are built for the most ordinary moments in a life: a worker flying home on leave, a family waiting at arrivals, a farewell at the security line. On the evening of 21 October 2026, an attack on King Fahd International Airport in Dammam turned...
Share this story Nine years after its launch at the Paris Air Show and more than six years after its original service-entry target, the Boeing 737 MAX 10 finally has its paperwork. On 20 October 2026 the US Federal Aviation Administration approved the amended type...
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