Aircraft, airlines, history, and the future of flight.
Picture the scene: you’re standing at a gate window somewhere like Dubai or Singapore, and a Boeing 777-300ER is being pushed back in the half-light before dawn. Even at that scale, from that distance, the thing looks purposeful. The tail fin alone is taller than a four-story building. The GE90-115B engines hanging beneath those raked…
Stand in front of a B-29 Superfortress in the Arizona sun and you’ll feel something shift in your chest. These machines are enormous in photographs. In person, up close, with the heat radiating off the aluminum skin and the shadow of a propeller blade falling across your boots, they become something else entirely. That’s what…
Picture the scene: November 1935, Alameda, California. A giant flying boat sits in the water, its four radial engines ticking over, its hull gleaming. A small crowd watches as the China Clipper lifts off and points its nose west. Nobody aboard knows for certain that they’ll make it. The Pacific Ocean had never been crossed…