Share this story Pull up a live flight tracker and look at the airways between Europe and East Asia. Hundreds of yellow aircraft icons stream across Siberia, Central Asia, India. And in the middle of it all sits a hole the size of Western Europe with almost nothing in...
Share this story In August 1944, as Allied armies raced across France, a 52-year-old prisoner was put aboard a transport at Drancy bound for the Buchenwald concentration camp. The Vichy regime had already jailed him, together with his wife and children. Now the Nazis...
Share this story Four minutes after lifting off from Singapore Changi Airport on 4 November 2010, Qantas Flight 32 was climbing through 7,400 feet when the passengers heard it: a bang, then a second, heavier one that shuddered through the cabin. On the flight deck,...
Share this story In the red dirt of Alice Springs, in the middle of the Australian outback, a Boeing 787-9 sat parked for the better part of a year — not broken, not retired, just waiting for engines. On June 28 it finally flew home to Auckland, and with it, Air New...
Share this story For a quarter of a century, GOL has been Brazil’s definitive short-haul airline: a vast orange-tailed fleet of Boeing 737s hopping between São Paulo, Rio and every corner of South America. On July 8, that identity changes. A GOL flight number will...
Share this story On July 4, virtually everything in the US military that flies made an appearance over Washington. Three bombers in one formation. Eight Thunderbirds. A brand-new Air Force One with a Raptor escort. The one aircraft everybody on the internet was...
Share this story In the autumn of 1932, a small, barrel-chested aeroplane painted red and white sat on a Cleveland airfield looking less like an aircraft than a cartoon of one. It was almost all engine — a giant radial nose bolted to a stubby fuselage, with the...
Share this story From the moment humans first left the ground, a certain kind of pilot has asked a dangerous question: what happens if I try this? The answers fill the wildest chapter of aviation history — a century of loops, rolls, dives and impossible threading of...
Share this story There is a sound a Lockheed P-38 Lightning makes that no other warbird can — two Allison V-12s, turbo-supercharged, humming in eerie harmony as the twin-boom fighter slides overhead. For most enthusiasts, hearing it once in a lifetime is a gift. This...
Share this story Bangkok has two airports, and for years the glamorous international arrivals went to just one of them. On July 1, 2026, flydubai bet on the other. Dubai’s low-cost carrier launched a daily service to Don Mueang — Bangkok’s original airport and now the...
Share this story Every July, a quiet corner of Gloucestershire becomes the busiest military airfield on Earth. Fighters, bombers and display teams from dozens of nations pack the ramp at RAF Fairford for the Royal International Air Tattoo — the largest military...
Share this story Somewhere on the ramp at Paine Field in Washington State sit rows of enormous, finished airliners with nowhere to go. They are Boeing 777Xs — the biggest twinjets ever built — and most of them have never carried a paying passenger. In 2026 they are...
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