Lufthansa Splits a $5 Billion Order Between Airbus and Boeing
Lufthansa Group ended its long widebody Airbus-only streak this week with a single, perfectly-balanced announcement: 10 Airbus A350-900s and 10 Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners. Same order. Same press release. Same Monday morning. It is one of the most diplomatically...
Elon Musk Flew an L-39 — So Can You
Before the rockets. Before the electric cars became mainstream. Before Mars, before the tunnels, before the social media platform — there was a young South African entrepreneur in the Nevada desert, strapped into the cockpit of a Cold War-era jet, grinning beneath an...
Turbulence Is Terrifying. It Almost Never Kills.
The drink cart rattles. The seatbelt sign pings on. The cabin shudders, then drops — or feels like it drops — and for three eternal seconds, your stomach is in your throat and your fingers are white-knuckling the armrest. Then it stops. The captain says something...
The Medical Exam Every Pilot Dreads
Somewhere in a strip-mall medical office, a prospective airline pilot is peeing into a cup, squinting at eye charts, and trying not to think about the fact that their entire career — years of training, tens of thousands of dollars in flight school debt — rests on...
Both Engines Dead: Can Jets Survive?
At 41,000 feet over the Atlantic, Air Transat Flight 236 ran out of fuel. Both Rolls-Royce engines on the Airbus A330 wound down to silence. For the 306 people aboard, the next 19 minutes would be the longest of their lives — a powerless glide toward a runway in the...
The Airlines That Accidentally Gave Away Free Flights
It starts, as so many great disasters do, with a spreadsheet. Somewhere deep in an airline’s pricing department, a number is entered wrong — a decimal slips, a currency code misfires, a fuel surcharge field is left blank. Within minutes, the airline’s...
The 10 Ugliest Aircraft Ever Built (That Actually Flew)
Aerodynamics is supposed to be a meritocracy. Sleek wins. Streamlined survives. The laws of physics are ruthless and impartial judges. And yet — throughout aviation history — engineers kept building aircraft that looked like they were assembled by committee at...
New ‘Bridge’ Air Force One Finishes Testing, Summer Debut
Somewhere in Waco, Texas, a Boeing 747 that used to carry Qatari royalty is being dressed up in red, white, and blue. By this summer, it’ll be calling itself Air Force One. The Air Force announced on May 1 that the “Bridge” VC-25B has completed its...
Qatar Airways Resumes Iraq Flights After 40-Day War Closure
On the morning of May 10, 2026, a Qatar Airways aircraft pushed back from Hamad International Airport and pointed its nose toward Baghdad. For forty days, Iraq’s airspace had been sealed shut — a casualty of the regional war. The engines spooling up that morning...
Embraer Just Had Its Best Quarter Ever — $1.4 Billion in Q1
Brazil doesn’t always get credit for aerospace excellence. But on May 8, 2026, Embraer — headquartered in Sao Jose dos Campos — posted the best first quarter in its history. Revenue: $1.4 billion. Growth: 31% year-on-year. Operating profit: up 52%. Backlog:...
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