So this is scary. Around 9AM this morning, a British Airways flight from London to Oslo was forced to make an emergency landing at Heathrow after both its engines suffered damage of some kind, causing one engine to catch fire. Both of Heathrow's runways were closed for the landing, but the Airbus 319 landed safely and the fire is now out. Read More >>

Finding a suitable runway to launch your multibillion pound fighter jet from isn't always as easy as it sounds. That's why the F-35B Lightning II is designed to with the ability to both take off and land without ever needing to taxi. Here's the first look at its vertical launch. Read More >>

You're looking at a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft being refueled by the 151st Air Refueling Wing over southern Idaho last week. But those are just details. What you're really looking at is a shock of beautiful, caught at a moment of technological awesomeness. [Flickr] Read More >>

The NYPD is saying that a 5-foot long airplane part of a 9/11 plane has been found in an alley near the World Trade Center. The landing gear part, which came from one of the airplanes that crashed into the Twin Towers, was found three streets from Ground Zero. It's incredible given that it's been more than 11 years since the tragic event of September 11th. Read More >>

Richard Branson: eccentric billionaire, adrenaline junky, sworn enemy of neckties, and now... matchmaker. That's right—Richard Branson wants to get you laid. What's more, he wants to get you laid in a goddamn airplane. Read More >>

If airlines were already keen to keep your phone switched off, things could be about to get even more militant. According to a talk by Hugo Teso at the Hack In The Box security conference, it's possible to hack an entire plane using an Android smartphone. Gulp. Read More >>

This slick, featureless fantasy object is how Boeing sees the future of aviation, in the form of a versatile manned or unmanned stealth fighter currently known as the FA-XX. Read More >>

On a long-haul flight to Chicago recently, I realised something: Flying brings out the extremes in my already tedious personality. I don't know exactly what it is about being cooped up with 200 strangers in a tin tube, but facets of my personality normally kept under control, safely within a locked room somewhere in my frontal lobes with a big, burly man on the door to make sure no insanity escapes, seem to find a way out over the course of nine hours in that stale-aired cocoon. Read More >>

News from Norway, and a batty/genius professor has vocalised the thoughts of anyone who's ever been stuck in economy next to someone a bit on the heavy side: maybe fat people should pay more for their plane tickets. It might sound unfair/unlikely to ever happen under the EU, but hey, it's being proposed by someone with a Ph.D, so let's take a moment to consider the merits. Read More >>

That pathetic sobbing sound you hear? It's SkyScanner, gently weeping in the corner, because Google Flights -- a handy flight-price-comparison tool that's been available in the US for a year or two -- now deals with journeys originating in the UK as well. It's painfully simple, comes with graphs rather than tacky ads, and most importantly doesn't take a trillion years to load when you click 'search'. Read More >>

There's no doubt the US Air Force knows what it's doing with its awesome imagery, spitting out jaw-dropping photo after jaw-dropping photo. But it's not just the Americans that can do Top Gun badassery, cue the Royal Air Force. I think I've just found my new desktop background. Read More >>

The Airbus A380 is one impressive bird, but you're unlikely to have flown on one yet, unless you've flown with Air France or something. That might change now that BA's got one, and boy does it look damn awesome in red, white and blue. Now, where did I put that lottery ticket? Time to win me some dosh so I can go trans-Atlantic cruising in first class. [BA] Read More >>

You've probably spent these last dreary months in Blighty gazing out the window and longing for the feel of real sunlight on your mottled, clammy, Vitamin-D-deprived skin. Well, despite flights being ruinously expensive at list price, there are ways to use airlines' own loyalty schemes to make a relatively modest break for the skies. Read More >>

We've all done our fair share of chucking paper aeroplanes at friends. And maybe, if you're a real engineer, you've made some clever, paper-folding modifications that let your plane do a loop — or better yet actually land on target. Joerg Sparve has turned his eye towards those paper aircraft, and needless to say, the outcome can do damage. Read More >>

Yes. It's happened. Your nightmare has actually come true. An honest-to-God, real-life pilot, in charge of a plane full of people and stuff, nodded off at the wheel (stick?), halfway over the ocean. Oh, and it wasn't just once -- the master of the skies managed to have two little cat-naps. Jeez. Read More >>