Incredible colour photos of pre-1950 British fighter aircraft
The early part of the 20th century saw the birth of the aeroplane and its arrival ushered in a new era of warfare - aerial combat. A new book, British Aviation: The First Half-Century contains over 170 beautifully colourised images of British aircraft produced before 1950. Key.Aero presents a selection of some of our favourite fighter aircraft
BOAC’s first DC-7C
On October 31, 1956 the initial Douglas DC-7C for BOAC touched down in the UK and ‘The Aeroplane’ was there to cast an eye over this new addition to the fleet
inter airport Europe review: Runway to recovery
inter airport Europe defied the odds and delivered an important opportunity for the industry to reconnect. Gordon Smith looks back on this key airport event
How Colombian start-up Ultra Air plans to revive South America's LCC sector
Colombian start-up Ultra Air is hoping to capitalise on Avianca’s pandemic-prompted problems when it launches services later this year. Chris Smith speaks to its CEO, William Shaw
First sighting of a Russian Classic
The Ilyushin Il-62, which NATO assigned the reporting name of ‘Classic’, has had a lengthy career and some examples are still flying. ‘The Aeroplane and Commercial Aviation News’ in its October 4, 1962 issue published the first photos of the jetliner to be publicly seen in the West
Dufour Aerospace and the tilt-wing
Inspired by work carried out 50 years ago, Switzerland’s Dufour Aerospace stands out from other air transport types. Mark Broadbent reports
The story of how Boeing builds the 787 Dreamliner
Ambitious. No single word better describes the outset of the 787 Dreamliner programme as Boeing sought to turf manufacturing out to contractors worldwide, while creating a second production line thousands of miles from home
Peace on Earth? NATO rewrites Article 5 to include space
NATO has rewritten the Article 5 clause of the North Atlantic Treaty to include the space domain for the first time, meaning that an attack on a member’s space-orientated assets could incur a response from across the alliance