Share this story Just before midnight on 1 July 2002, two aircraft converged over the Bodensee at 36,000 feet. One was a DHL Boeing 757 freighter climbing out of Bergamo with two pilots aboard. The other was a Bashkirian Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 carrying 69 people from...
Share this story On the evening of 1 February 1985, a Trans World Airlines Boeing 767 pushed back at Boston’s Logan Airport, bound for Paris. To the passengers it was an ordinary red-eye. It was anything but. Sixteen TWA pilots had been through special training...
Share this story The Boeing 737 freighter working K2 Airways flight 1732 on Tuesday evening was less than an hour from home. It had left Sharjah for Karachi with five crew and a hold full of cargo, a two-hour hop across the Arabian Sea that Pakistani freight operators...
Ask which is better, the MiG-29 or the Su-30, and you have already misunderstood the question. They were never meant to compete. They are the two halves of a single idea — the Soviet Union’s deliberate decision to build one small fighter and one big one, each...
Quando l'An-225 Mriya fu distrutto nel 2022, il mondo perse il suo aereo più grande. Ma l'Occidente mantiene ancora in volo un suo gigante, un aereo che trasporta carri armati, elicotteri e satelliti in tutto il pianeta da prima degli allunaggi, e che...
Ci sono aerei enormi, e poi c'era il Mriya. Mettersi sotto un Boeing 747 ti fa sentire piccolo. Mettersi sotto un An-225 fa sembrare piccolo il 747. Per 33 anni è esistito esattamente uno di questi velivoli: un gigante sovietico a sei motori costruito per un unico...
Share this story In the spring of 1946, in a factory near Pisa that Allied bombers had flattened only months before, an engineer wheeled out a strange little machine — a step-through scooter with a rounded steel body and a small engine tucked by the rear wheel. Enrico...
Share this story Sydney has a new way to reach Asia, and it comes wearing a splash of Malaysian batik on its tail. From 1 July 2026, Batik Air Malaysia flies a daily Airbus A330 between Kuala Lumpur and Sydney — the airline’s fourth city in Australia and a fresh shot...
Share this story Seven years after American Airlines walked away from the route, Chicago and Tokyo are about to be joined by a nonstop again — and this time American is flying it with its own metal. Starting 27 March 2027, American will run a daily Boeing 787-9...
Share this story On 22 July, a Qatar Airways Boeing 777-200LR will do something no Gulf airline has ever done: land in Venezuela. The flight is QR783, and it does not fly a straight line. It threads Doha to Bogotá to Caracas and back — a single sprawling triangle...
Share this story Heathrow, a December morning. The fog is so dense that from the cockpit of a taxiing 777 the crew cannot see their own wingtip. Officially, the runway visual range is 125 metres — about the length of the aircraft plus a bus. And yet, every couple of...
Share this story On the morning of 7 August 1919, Parisians near the Champs-Élysées heard an engine where there should have been none. They looked up to see a Nieuport fighter dropping toward the great arch at the head of the avenue — and then, impossibly, threading...
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