Aviation World, History & Legends
On 14 December 1986, a spindly aircraft made almost entirely of paper, glue, and carbon fibre wobbled down the runway at Edwards Air Force Base with so much fuel aboard that its wingtips dragged on the concrete, damaging the winglets. Nine days, three minutes, and 44...
Aviation World, History & Legends
The de Havilland Comet was beautiful. Sleek, four-engined, impossibly quiet compared to the propliners it replaced. On 2 May 1952, BOAC Comet G-ALYP departed London for Johannesburg — the world’s first scheduled jet airline service. Passengers sipped champagne...
Aviation World, History & Legends
It is January 1921, and a crowd has gathered on the shore of Lago Maggiore near Sesto Calende. They are staring at a houseboat. Or a cathedral. Or perhaps a floating lumber yard that has sprouted wings — nine of them — and eight bellowing American engines. The thing...
Aviation World, History & Legends
The model sat in a cavernous hangar in Seattle, gleaming under fluorescent lights like a promise made in aluminum. It was 1969, and Boeing had built a full-sized mockup of the 2707 — America’s supersonic transport, 306 feet long, with a drooped nose borrowed...
Aviation World, Inside MiGFlug
On a clear winter day in Italy’s Aosta Valley, a navy-blue L-39 Albatros taxied out beneath the snow-capped Alps with two of Germany’s most famous rappers strapped into its tandem cockpits. The cameras were rolling – and the footage they captured...
Aviation World, Military Aviation
Seven hours into an ocean crossing, the airline passenger in 34C has lost all feeling in one leg, finished the bad movie, and is staring down a queue for the lavatory. A few thousand feet away, an Air Force pilot is doing the same crossing strapped into a single-seat...
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