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The Most Beautiful Planes Ever Built
They’re so commonplace that we take them completely for granted – but planes are beautiful, graceful and awe-inspiring machines. They’ve taken humans to remote places and on regular commutes, on great...
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Gatwick Drones: the Impact on Aviation
For 36 hours in December 2018, Gatwick airport was on its knees. 140,000 passengers on over 1,000 flights were affected in the most disruptive event since the 2010 Icelandic volcano eruption. What has...
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Stealth Planes: How do They Work?
Since planes could fly, military powers have been looking for ways to hide them. Stealth planes were once the biggest secret in the world. Today, they’re famous icons of engineering and military...
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Plane Spotting and Autism
If you take a walk along the perimeter fence of any large airport you’re certain to find an interesting bunch of people – plane spotters. Most you’ll find with cameras to their faces capturing the...
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Why Can’t Planes Fly When a Volcano Erupts?
The 2010 eruption of Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull, which wreaked havoc with travel plans, spread a cloud of ash across Europe, North America and far into the Asian continent. Flights were...
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MIT Ion Drive Plane Flies with Zero Moving Parts
Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have flown a plane with no moving parts. Is this a significant event in aviation, the game changing moment that leads to electric planes?...
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Are Pets on Planes a Real Benefit?
Emotional support animals are, for now, an American phenomenon; one yet to reach Europe. Over 500,000 animals fly on US airlines every year and it’s common to see not just service dogs, but all types...
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How are Airports Preparing for the Future of Travel?
Airports are getting bigger and busier. Advances have been made across the aviation industry, with new routes and better in flight experiences – but what can we expect airports to be like in the...
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Report Finds Planes are Disgusting Places
Next time you fly, you might want to pack some hand sanitiser and wet wipes. And maybe wear a hat. You’ll probably want to wash your clothes and have a shower as soon as you get to your destination,...
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The Best and Worst Airports in the World
Airports. If you fly a lot for work, you probably hate them. If your travels are for fun, the airport’s usually where the fun starts. Either way, nobody wants to have a bad time at the airport, so...
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Passengers Buckle Up for the World’s Longest Flight
On Thursday 11 October, Singapore Airlines Flight SQ22 heading to New York will claim the title of the longest ever nonstop flight. The record-breaking flight will transport 161 passengers from Changi...
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How Drones Changed Aviation – and the World
Just a few years ago, consumer drones were fuelling horror stories about how they impacted our safety and privacy, the freak public accidents they’d caused – and how they were being used to ferry...
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From Sky to Space: is Stratolaunch the Next-Gen Spaceship?
Space exploration and aviation have been conspicuously decoupled for some time – ever since the space shuttle was decommissioned. They could finally be back together soon, with what might be the most...
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Boeing’s 787 Shows Off Impressive Moves
At the 2018 Farnborough Airshow, Boeing brought its A-game. The Biman Bangladesh B787-8 Dreamliner, sporting a wingspan of over 60m, made a near-vertical ascent following takeoff, followed by some...
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The Environmental Cost of Air Travel
Hothouse Earth is the new name for global warming, AKA the greenhouse effect. It’s the latest piece of publicity attempting to kick the population into caring about the horrors of climate change. What...
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Too Hot to Fly? Heat Wave Effects on Aviation
Countries all over the world are gripped by extreme weather, in an unusual global heat wave. In Japan, the heat has been declared a natural disaster. Norway and Sweden are reporting temperatures way...
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Farewell to Mary Ellis; A Spitfire Girl
An aviation legend. The pilot of more than 400 Spitfires, who clocked over 1,100 hours in the cockpit. A pioneer of women in military aviation, and a noble spirit who embodied the soul of aviation....
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Encore for Concorde?
For three decades, the only way you could travel faster than Concorde was as an astronaut. Ever since the iconic jet was grounded in 2003, supersonic flight for civilian travellers has been out of...
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Space Tourism: Pie in the Sky?
SpaceX, Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic are betting it all on space tourism taking off. But is there really a market for suborbital space flights priced at $250,000? The Challenges of Consumer...
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The Challengers to the Boeing/Airbus Duopoly
It’s not surprising to hear that Boeing and Airbus are rulers of the sky, between them raking in 45.2% of all UK revenue for airline manufacturers. It’s hard to envision a time when these two giants...
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