Aircraft, airlines, history, and the future of flight.
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…
Walk through the main gate at IWM Duxford on a still summer morning and something happens that no other aviation museum quite manages. The aircraft aren’t behind glass. The hangars smell of oil and old fabric. And occasionally, if the schedule cooperates, something with a Merlin engine starts up and the whole field vibrates with…