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Is this the world’s most pointless airport?
Built at a cost of £200 million, Saint Helena Airport connects a remote British Overseas Territory to the rest of the world – but only when the wind isn’t blowing in a certain direction…
The Monday Military Aviation Quiz 3
Welcome to the third Monday Military Aviation Quiz! How good of a military spotter do you consider yourself to be? Test your aircraft recognition skills on our quiz here!
Fast, futuristic and very expensive: the XB-70 Valkyrie
Watch rare footage of the only XB-70 Valkyrie in existence – still the heaviest aircraft ever made to reach Mach 3
Travellers pay £140 each for return flight to nowhere
Tickets sell out in minutes for the return journey to Taipei's Taoyuan Airport in a Hello Kitty-branded A330
When 1088 people flew on a 747 at once
Nearly 30 years ago, an El Al Boeing 747 broke the Guinness World Record for the greatest number of passengers on a single aircraft at one – a record that still stands. Here’s how and why it happened
RAF Posiedon shadows Russian warship for the first time
The Royal Air Force (RAF) has conducted the first operational sortie of its Boeing P-8A Poseidon MRA1 fleet, using the aircraft to shadow a Russian warship in the North Sea on August 3.
The World’s Strangest Airline Liveries
Airline liveries can sometimes be a bit dull - but not this selection. Here are nine eye-catching schemes that turned heads wherever they went.
US Army signs for more MH-47G Block II Chinooks
On July 31, Boeing announced that it had been awarded a US$265m contract to build and deliver nine more MH-47G Block II Chinook helicopters for the US Army’s Special Operations Aviation Command.
Commercial Aviation General Knowledge Quiz
This next instalment of the Saturday Commercial Aviation quiz follows a general knowledge theme. Test yourself on a wide range of subjects and let us know what score you got!
Decommissioned RAF bases: photographer captures the remains of RAF bases that have been left in the past
A photographer has travelled to the sites of old RAF bases, hoping to capture their intriguing histories from behind the camera
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