Flygskam Tried to Stop People from Flying. Did It Actually Work?
In 2018, a Swedish social movement called flygskam, meaning “flight shame,” set out to make people feel guilty about boarding […]
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Tågskryt Wants People to Take Trains Instead of Planes. Is It Working?
The rise of sustainable travel, focusing on reducing our carbon footprint, brought about the concept of “flight shame”, which was
More Dangerous Than Lukla? Inside Mingbo, Nepal’s Forgotten Airport at 15,000 ft
While the Lukla Airport is known as the Hillary Airport (with the name of the other mountaineer first to Everest-
Lukla Airport: Myths vs Facts of “the most dangerous airport”
Pradip Bashyal, a BBC journalist based in Kathmandu and writer of the brilliant book “Sherpa” shares his thoughts on the
How Many People Die in Commercial Plane Crashes? The Numbers May Surprise You
A report from Forbes pointed out that 2024 was “the deadliest in commercial aviation in six years.” This came against
How do double delta blended wing body aircraft work?
Most airliners still look like a tube with wings bolted onto it. That shape has stayed almost unchanged since the
The Kármán Line Says Space Begins at 100 km. But Is That Really True?
The decade of 1960 marked a very important period of space exploration as it saw the launch of the first
Can a Supersonic Aircraft fly to space?
To triumph over the limitation of accessing space, any air-cum-space craft requires a complex mesh of systems that are not