Civil Aviation

Himalaya Airlines (H9), Nepal’s Nepal-China joint-venture international carrier, commenced direct scheduled flight service between Tribhuvan International Airport (KTM), Kathmandu, and Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport (SZX) on June 4, 2026. The inaugural outbound service, flight H9 985, took off from Kathmandu at 09:59 PM local time carrying 98 passengers, landing in Shenzhen at 04:17 AM Chinese…

All Nippon Airways (NH) unveiled the livery designs for two of three specially commissioned aircraft — Pokémon Jet Red and Pokémon Jet Green — as part of a landmark collaboration celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Pokémon franchise. The announcement was made in Tokyo, and the aircraft designs draw directly from the aesthetic grammar of…

On May 26, 2026, Hermeus — a venture-backed defense aviation company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia — announced that its Quarterhorse Mk 2.1 unmanned aircraft had achieved its first supersonic flight, reaching a top speed of Mach 1.21, or approximately 930 miles per hour, during a test sortie at Spaceport America in New Mexico over the…

Boeing, the Chicago-headquartered aerospace giant founded in 1916 by William Boeing on the shores of Lake Union in Seattle, has shaped commercial aviation more profoundly than any other manufacturer in the industry’s history. Boeing’s aircraft types have defined every era of mass air travel from the piston age through the jet age through the composite…

Since Boeing’s 737-100 rolled out at Boeing’s Renton factory in January 1967, the type has accumulated more than 7,000 deliveries in its Next Generation (NG) form alone, produced over 2,200 737 MAX aircraft, and maintains a backlog that has grown the company’s total orderbook to a record $695 billion. In addition, the 737 family accounting…

On 19 July 1989, United Airlines (UA) Flight 232, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 operating the Denver–Chicago–Philadelphia corridor, suffered a catastrophic uncontained failure of its tail-mounted No. 2 engine at 37,000 feet above northern Iowa, severing all three of its independent hydraulic systems simultaneously. Of the 296 people on board — 285 passengers and 11 crew…

The aircraft elevator is one of the three primary flight control surfaces that govern fixed-wing flight, alongside the ailerons and the rudder. Situated at the trailing edge of the horizontal stabilizer in the tail section (a region aeronautical engineers call the empennage), the elevator controls the aircraft’s pitch: the rotation of the nose up or…

Boeing’s 777, universally called the Triple Seven, first entered commercial service with United Airlines (UA) on May 15, 1995 and has since accumulated 2,485 total orders from over 60 operators, making it the most commercially successful widebody aircraft in aviation history by orders placed. The Boeing 787 Dreamliner, which entered service with All Nippon Airways…

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) permits the vast majority of solid food items in both carry-on and checked baggage but applies its well-known 3-1-1 liquids rule to a broader range of food categories than most passengers anticipate. Understanding exactly where that line falls, and the legitimate exceptions to it, can save travellers time, money, and…