Last year saw the Royal Air Force’s Airbus Defence A400M swoop in to provide hope and much needed humanitarian aid in the aftermath of devastating hurricanes in the Caribbean – its first operational ...

Over one year on from the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Western air forces are now rediscovering the need for dispersed operations to survive and keep fighting. TIM ROBINSON FRAeS considers what a 21st ...

BILL READ FRAeS reviews a recent specialist paper produced by the RAeS Flight Operations Group which provides a critical analysis of the emergency evacuation of commercial passenger aircraft The ...

Stuck for avgeek reading over the festive season? TIM ROBINSON FRAeS and STEPHEN BRIDGEWATER FRAeS present personal picks of their favourite aerospace, aviation and spaceflight books of 2025. Jell-O, ...

Can the commercial turboprop still compete with new regional jet designs? BILL READ FRAeS reports. While the age of large propeller-powered passenger aircraft ended with the advent of jets in the ...

Despite buzzwords of 'working at pace' and 'moving to a war footing', some six months on, the UK SDR now seems trapped in ...

Some 85 years after it first flew, the Douglas DC-3 still flies on in commercial service – a testament to the ruggedness of the original design. ALAN DRON tracks down the DC-3s still in service. It is ...

On 25 September 2025, former BEA and British Airways Training Captain, Dacre Watson FRAeS, provided the latest Royal ...

Upcoming events RAeS Business Aviation Forum 2026 Book your early bird ticket now for the RAeS Business Aviation Forum, taking place in London and online on Monday 2 March - part of the RAeS Civil ...

The Global Combat Air Programme is a multinational effort led by the UK, Japan and Italy to develop a new stealthy combat aircraft. But is GCAP the right solution? JOE COLES went in search of answers.

As hypersonic pioneer Reaction Engines enters administration BILL SWEETMAN looks at what the company promised, and what went wrong. Reaction Engines Ltd (REL) people used to call the company “the ...

Airbus has opened a new Wing Technology Development Centre in Bristol. STEPHEN BRIDGEWATER speaks to Airbus’ Wing of Tomorrow programme head, Sue Partridge to learn how Airbus is taking inspiration ...