Flying clean: Electric planes could be ready for take off by the 2030s

These new aircraft could help cut carbon emissions, experts say.

Gökçin Çınar, The Conversation

· Sep 24, 2022 · 07:30 pm

Supersonic jets are set to fly again – but must overcome the problems that grounded the Concord

Boom Overture supersonic jets hope to be ready for commercial use by 2029.

Peter Thomas, The Conversation

· Jun 11, 2021 · 11:30 pm

World’s largest plane takes first flight, aims to act as flying launch pad for satellites

The six-engine jet’s wingspan is the length of an American football field.

Scroll Staff

· Apr 14, 2019 · 07:34 pm

Amelia Earhart’s non-stop flight from the Red Sea to India was marked by British obstructionism

Civil aviation was in its infancy and Britain was developing an air route along the Arab side of the Persian Gulf from Baghdad.

John Hayhurst

· Dec 15, 2018 · 08:30 pm

Watch: This skydiver gloriously jumped from a drone. Others like him could soon be saving lives

The next frontier in adventure sports in the sky?

Scroll Staff

· May 16, 2017 · 05:00 pm

Annoyed with flight delay, Jet Airways passenger tweets ‘hijack’ alert to Narendra Modi

Nitin Verma’s message on Twitter sent security forces into action, and he was deboarded at the Jaipur airport for questioning.

Scroll Staff

· Apr 28, 2017 · 09:44 am

Watch: The world’s largest aircraft ‘Airlander 10’ makes a crash landing (very slowly)

The bottom-shaped plane’s second test run ended in a crash landing.

Scroll Staff

· Aug 26, 2016 · 04:00 pm

How to build a plane that never needs to land

Internet connections could one day come from solar-powered planes that fly for months at a time or even longer.

Richard Cochrane, The Conversation

· Feb 21, 2016 · 09:30 pm

Watch videos of Air India's first foreign flight – and early air hostesses

Eighty years after JRD Tata piloted the first mail plane to India, the Tatas return to the skies today with their AirAsia joint venture.

Scroll Staff

· Jun 12, 2014 · 05:52 am