Aircraft, airlines, history, and the future of flight.
There’s a moment, somewhere between climbing the boarding stairs into a parked Concorde and pressing your back into the jump seat of a retired Air Force One, when the Museum of Flight in Seattle stops feeling like a museum and starts feeling like something else entirely. A hangar full of ghosts, maybe. Or a library…
There is a moment on the approach into Innsbruck when the mountains fill every window simultaneously and you become acutely, wonderfully aware that the pilots up front are earning their pay. The Inn valley narrows. The terrain rises on both sides faster than seems reasonable. And then the runway appears, flat and almost absurdly short,…
There are airports you pass through and airports you actually feel. Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport — Terminal 2, specifically — belongs firmly in the second category. Walk into the departures hall for the first time and you don’t reach for your boarding pass. You look up. The terminal, designed by SOM (Skidmore, Owings…