Aircraft, airlines, history, and the future of flight.
There is a building in Kowloon, somewhere in the dense residential grid east of the old airport, with a red-and-white checkerboard painted on its roof. It’s still there. Long after the last 747 banked over it at a terrifying angle and touched down on a runway that jutted into Victoria Harbour, the checkerboard remains —…
Walk through the main hangar at RAF Cosford on a quiet Tuesday morning and you will find yourself standing beneath a Vulcan, a Victor, and a Valiant — all three V-bombers, together, under one roof. That is not a sentence you can write about many places on earth. In fact, you can write it about…
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…