Aircraft, airlines, history, and the future of flight.
Walk through the front gate at Pima Air & Space Museum on the south side of Tucson and within about thirty seconds you’ll be standing next to a real SR-71 Blackbird in the open desert air. No rope keeping you fifteen feet back. No thick glass. Just you, the sun, and one of the most…
Stand at a gate at any major hub and watch a Boeing 777 lumber in from a long-haul flight. The wingspan is enormous — generous enough that airport infrastructure has quietly shaped the entire geometry of modern wide-body operations. Now Boeing is preparing to stretch that wingspan even further with the 777X, and to make…
Picture an aircraft pushing back from the gate, its engines spooling up — and the only thing coming out of the back is warm, moist air. No kerosene smell. No carbon. Just water vapour drifting across the tarmac. That’s the promise of hydrogen fuel cell propulsion, and after years of being the slightly overlooked sibling…