The Iran War’s $4.3 Billion Airline Bill

The Iran War’s $4.3 Billion Airline Bill

Luftfahrtwelt, Nachricht

Last year the Middle East’s airlines made $7.2 billion. This year they are on track to lose $4.3 billion. That is an eleven-and-a-half-billion-dollar swing in twelve months, and it makes the Gulf the only major airline region on earth expected to finish 2026 in...
Two Crashes, Forty-Eight Hours, One Question

Two Crashes, Forty-Eight Hours, One Question

Luftfahrtwelt, Nachricht

The Turbulent weighs about as much as two adult passengers. It is built from wood and fabric, powered by a converted Volkswagen Beetle engine, and its own display team has cheerfully described it as little more than a flying motorbike. On Sunday afternoon, in front of...
Spain’s First Kill Over Romania

Spain’s First Kill Over Romania

Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht

At 04:44 on Sunday morning, a Romanian radar operator watched a small, slow-moving return cross the Prut and slide into national airspace from Moldova, roughly 24 kilometres north of Galați. Seventeen minutes later it no longer existed.The aircraft that killed it...
Concordski: The Day the Soviet SST Fell

Concordski: The Day the Soviet SST Fell

Geschichte & Legenden

The West called it “Concordski,” half in mockery. It flew two months before Concorde, looked almost identical, and carried the pride of the entire Soviet aerospace industry on its needle nose. On 3 June 1973, in front of a quarter of a million people at...
Colonel Toon: The Ace Who Never Was

Colonel Toon: The Ace Who Never Was

Geschichte & Legenden

He had thirteen American kills, a colonel’s rank, and a name that made young U.S. pilots go quiet: Colonel Toon. He was North Vietnam’s deadliest ace, the ghost every Navy flier feared meeting over Haiphong. There was only one problem with the legend of...