At ten past three in the morning the Vimy fell out of a cloud towards the sea. What Alcock and Brown each said about the first non-stop Atlantic flight, and where the two accounts part company. Read article
The history of Rolls-Royce aero engines, from the Eagle of 1915 to the Trent and UltraFan: the Merlin and its two-stage supercharger, what the record actually says about Whittle, the Nene engines sold to the Soviet Union, the Olympus on Concorde, and the contract that put the company into receivership in 1971. Read article
A photographer’s guide to IWM Duxford: why the crowd line faces into the sun, the computed light for the remaining 2026 events, focal lengths for a Spitfire and a B-17 at display distance, what the hangar architecture tells you about the light inside, and the commercial photography restriction nobody explains. Read article
The business side of selling aviation prints: the four routes to market and what each takes, pricing from the lab invoice upwards, what makes a limited edition real, the fourteen-day cancellation right that probably does apply to you, VAT and the trading allowance, and what airshow ticket terms mean for selling your own photographs. Read article
The aircraft of the Battle of Midway and what each of them actually did. The torpedo that could not be dropped, the folding wing that cost twenty seconds of firing time, the forty minutes Nagumo never had, and the five-minute myth that came out of one book in 1955. Read article
The engineering that made the attack on Pearl Harbor possible, and the reason it failed anyway. The shallow-water torpedo, the three Japanese types, the order that parked the American aircraft in rows, the fourteen pilots who got airborne, and the carriers that were not there. Read article
The Boeing 707 was not the first jet airliner and it did not cross the Atlantic first. What it did was make the cheap seat pay. The Dash 80 gamble, the roll over Lake Washington, the arithmetic that finished the piston fleets, and the rule the 707 left behind. Read article
The Heinkel He 178 made the world’s first flight of a turbojet-powered aircraft on 27 August 1939, five days before the war began. How it was built, who flew it, why the air ministry shrugged, and why nothing of it survives. Read article
How the Airbus A380 was built and why it stopped: the wiring crisis, the wingspan set by airport planners, Qantas 32, the Emirates decision of February 2019, and the pandemic retirement that airlines had to reverse. Read article
The history of Lockheed’s Skunk Works: Kelly Johnson and the fourteen rules, the U-2 and the Powers shootdown, the A-12 that was faster than the Blackbird, the drone that cut its carrier in two, Have Blue, the F-117 and the aeroplane flying at Palmdale today. Read article
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