Share this story Somewhere in the second-hand widebody market, a Boeing 777-200ER that spent its career hauling passengers between Auckland and the rest of the world has just been bought by a hypersonics company. It is going to Mojave. It is going to have a hypersonic...
Share this story Somewhere in the twenty minutes before your flight pushed back, one of the pilots typed a number into a keypad on the centre console. It was probably two or three digits. It took about four seconds. That number decided how fast you are about to fly,...
Share this story The largest radar ever built does not sit on a mountain. It floats. Six diesel generators, two hulls, a crew of somewhere between 48 and 86 depending on which part of the US government you ask, and on top of it a white sphere 36.5 metres (120 ft)...
Share this story Within nine hours of flydubai FZ1073 landing at Tabuk, an Israeli cabinet minister had called it a jihadist terror attack, a finance minister had said the perpetrator should pay as though he had murdered, and the airline flying the aircraft had asked...
Share this story The passengers were in their seats. The bags were in the hold. The Boeing 737 was ready to push back for Iran. Then, on Monday evening, 28 September 2026, lawyers and court enforcement officers walked up to the aircraft at Istanbul Airport with a...
Share this story Germany builds a great deal of aircraft structure. Fuselage sections, wings, cabins and engines leave German factories every day. What it has not done for a very long time is design, certify, assemble and support a complete airliner of its own. On 29...
Share this story Volotea built its business on the routes nobody else wanted: Nantes to Palma, Bilbao to Athens, Verona to Catania. Small cities, medium-sized airports, very orange-and-white checkerboard tails. On 29 September 2026, the Spanish low-cost airline asked...
Share this story Toulouse has seen a great many first flights, but few in a paint scheme that looks like a cardboard box. On 29 September 2026, the first Airbus A350F, MSN700, registered F-WXLD, lifted off from Toulouse-Blagnac in its brown test livery with bright...
Share this story At 9:14 on the morning of 12 November 2001, American Airlines Flight 587 lifted off from New York’s John F. Kennedy airport bound for Santo Domingo. Many of the 251 passengers were Dominican New Yorkers going home. About 105 seconds later the...
Share this story At 15:45 on Tuesday, 2 October 2001, Swissair chairman and CEO Mario Corti stood in front of the cameras and announced that the airline would stop flying. By then, jets carrying the Swiss cross were already sitting on aprons from Zurich to New York,...
Share this story Ninety-seven years ago this week, on the afternoon of 30 September 1929, a German car heir strapped himself into a pod under a glider wing, alongside sixteen gunpowder rockets, lit them and shot into the sky over Frankfurt. Fritz von Opel stayed up...
Share this story The President of the United States has Air Force One. The Pope, head of a state of less than half a square kilometre, has no air force, no airline and no airport. Yet he flies more than most heads of state, and when two French Rafales formed up on his...
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