Southwest Posts Profit While Europe’s Airlines Bleed
Southwest Airlines just posted a $227 million net profit for the first quarter of 2026. Across the Atlantic, Lufthansa is slashing 20,000 flights. Air Transat, WestJet, and Air Canada are cutting capacity. The European Commission is scrambling to guarantee jet fuel...
Around the World on Nothing But Sunlight: The Solar Impulse Story
On July 26, 2016, a strange, slow, silent aircraft landed at Abu Dhabi International Airport, completing a journey that had begun 16 months earlier at the same airfield. Solar Impulse 2 had just circumnavigated the Earth — crossing Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North...
SpaceShipOne: The Day a Private Team Beat NASA to Space for 1.5% of the Cost
On October 4, 2004 — the 47th anniversary of Sputnik — a small, white aircraft climbed to 112 kilometres above the Mojave Desert, briefly reached space, and returned safely to Earth. It was the third such flight in five days. The pilot was different each time but the...
Qatar’s VIP 747 Becomes Air Force One
It has marble showers, plush VIP suites, and a price tag approaching $400 million for the conversion alone. It was built as a flying palace for the Emir of Qatar. And by this summer, it will carry the President of the United States — with one critical capability...
Nine Days in a Cockpit the Size of a Bathtub: The Voyager’s Round-the-World Flight
On December 14, 1986, a strange-looking aircraft — long, thin, with two fuselages, a pusher engine, a puller engine, and wings so flexible they bent visibly under their own weight — rolled down a runway at Edwards Air Force Base in California and lifted off. It was...
Zero to Airline Pilot in Six Months? The Reality Check
The advertisement promises everything. Zero flight hours to commercial pilot in six months. No prior experience needed. Financing available. Start your dream career today. Flight schools across the United States, Europe, and Asia are competing for students with...
Ground Effect: The Invisible Cushion That Makes Landings Tricky
You are two feet above the runway. The airspeed is right. The attitude is right. Everything you have done for the last ten seconds has been textbook. And then, just as the wheels should touch — the airplane decides it does not want to land. It floats. It hangs in the...
Your Engine Quit. ForeFlight Knows Where You Can Land.
Your engine just quit. You have maybe ninety seconds before you need to commit to a landing site. Where do you go? For most of aviation history, the answer to that question has depended entirely on what the pilot remembers — the airports nearby, the terrain below, the...
AERO Friedrichshafen 2026: 820 Exhibitors, One Lake, Four Days
Friedrichshafen opens its doors today. And this time, it is bigger than anyone expected. The 32nd edition of AERO — Europe’s premier general aviation trade show — launches on April 22 with 820 exhibitors from more than 50 countries, exhibitor bookings running 25...
Top Gun 3 Confirmed: Maverick Returns to the Danger Zone
Tom Cruise is going back to the danger zone. At CinemaCon in Las Vegas on April 17, 2026, Paramount Pictures confirmed what aviation fans and film audiences worldwide had been hoping for: Top Gun 3 is officially in development. Cruise will reprise his role as Captain...
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