VIP flight attendant: how to keep your wings despite double crisis?
“Nothing can take away my wings”, says Anastasia Petridou, an experienced cabin crew member who used to work…
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Why aren’t airliners equipped with anti-missile defense systems?
As El Al’s Boeing 737 took off for the first commercial flight between Israel and United Arab Emirates,…
Ryanair to order and help build the second Antonov An-225 Mriya
In a bid to respond to the unprecedented demand for the upcoming summer travel season, as the vaccination…
Shenyang hints at a carrier-based version of FC-31 fighter jet
Shenyang Aircraft Corporation announced the development of a carrier-based 5th generation fighter jet would be accelerated in 2021,…
Pilot licenses caught in post-Brexit limbo
Following the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union (EU), some continuity has been achieved due to agreements…
Rolls-Royce starts building UltraFan, world’s largest jet engine
Rolls-Royce, the British engineering giant, started building the UltraFan, the largest aero engine in the world. Rolls-Royce announced…
Would the Russian flying saucer actually work? | EKIP Part 4
Through the 80s and 90s, Lev Nikolayevich Schukin and his team of engineers tried to develop and sell an…
99-year-old WW2 veteran flies fighter jet simulator [Video]
The 99-year-old Russian veteran of the Second World War, Maria Koltakova, took part in a training session on…
Ryanair sharpens knives for summer, adds 26 new routes
Ryanair sharpens knives against its competitors for the summer season of 2021 by offering 26 new routes to…
For Europe’s airlines, is summer travel season the last hope for survival?
Despite a round of positive news over the course of the past few months, including the beginning of…
Ryanair’s O’Leary: Lufthansa is like a drunken uncle at a German wedding
The ever expressive Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary compared Lufthansa (LHAB) (LHA) to a “drunken uncle at a…
Jet MS becomes dealer of ALTO Aviation’s premium cabin solutions
Jet MS, a global provider of base and line maintenance services for business and regional aircraft, and a…
Secret story of EKIP, the Soviet flying saucer | Part 1
At one point in history there was an aircraft that could take off and land without an airport,…
An A350 freighter might be Airbus only hope to break Boeing cargo dominance
While Airbus always went head-to-head with Boeing in regards to the production of passenger aircraft, cargo aircraft painted…
Blue Air to start first-ever direct Iasi-London Heathrow service
A Romanian low-cost carrier Blue Air plans to launch the first-ever direct international operations from Iasi, Romania, to…
Is this the right time to establish an airline?
When everybody takes a step back, it does provide an opportunity to take a step forward. As the…
How Russians tried to sell a flying saucer | EKIP Part 2
In the late 70s Soviet engineer Lev Nikolayevich Schukin came up with an idea for an aircraft of…
What is left of the Russian flying saucer? | EKIP Part 3
EKIP was a project to develop an aircraft with some wondrous properties: a saucer-like flying wing that would…