Aircraft, airlines, history, and the future of flight.
Picture the scene: New York, 1938. A giant flying boat with four radial engines is being loaded not just with fuel, but with enough fuel to make the entire crossing to Europe — and then some. Because the plan isn’t simply to cross the Atlantic. The plan is to prove it can be done nonstop…
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…