https://aviospace.org/ Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:50:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://aviospace.org/how-effective-has-flygskam-been-5-years-down-the-line/#comment-6379 Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:50:09 +0000 https://aviospace.org/?p=4610#comment-6379 […] rise of sustainable travel, focusing on reducing our carbon footprint, brought about the concept of “flight shame”, which was better known as “flygskam”. Individuals who were concerned about the soaring levels of CO2 emissions associated with flights […]

]]> https://aviospace.org/concorde-how-polluting-was-it/#comment-6378 Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:33:43 +0000 https://aviospace.org/?p=4588#comment-6378 […] Concorde, the fastest commercial plane, could maintain Mach speed up to 2.04 (2,170 km/hr, 1350 mph). Concorde was also the second supersonic airliner in the world, falling just short of the Tupolev Tu-144, which was also dubbed the Soviet Concorde. However, the Concorde was retired in 2003, and the Tu-144, a lot earlier. Commercial aircraft operate at speeds less than that of sound. Besides commercial ones, there are cargo aircraft like the amazingly shaped Airbus Beluga, designed with transport in mind, but don’t fly as fast as commercial airliners. But which are the ten fastest aircraft in the world? Let’s find out.  […]

]]> https://aviospace.org/fuel-tankering-effects-on-the-environment/#comment-6377 Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:20:35 +0000 https://aviospace.org/?p=2053#comment-6377 […] intercontinental flight. Since the aviation community has not yet had a viable program to curb the impacts of fuel tankering on the environment nor have the tags of esoteric vocabulary such as Flygskam or Tagskryt stopped […]

]]> https://aviospace.org/are-helicopters-safer-than-planes/#comment-6376 Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:40:34 +0000 https://aviospace.org/?p=8144#comment-6376 […] helicopters had a Death Index of 63. But before we get caught up in making generalizations about the safety of helicopters vs fixed-wing, we have to keep in mind that choppers are involved in many risky search and rescue missions. An […]

]]> https://aviospace.org/aviation-vocabulary-widebody-aircraft-in-pictures/#comment-6375 Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:36:20 +0000 https://aviospace.org/?p=6235#comment-6375 […] in 1952 with the de Havilland Comet, followed by the Boeing 707 and with the introduction of the widebody aircraft – the Boeing […]

]]> https://aviospace.org/caspian-sea-monster-ussrs-top-secret-ekrano-plan/#comment-6374 Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:36:00 +0000 https://aviospace.org/?p=1966#comment-6374 […] a remarkable transformation since the era of the Wright Brothers. We have seen the introduction of bizarre aircraft such as the Caspian Sea Monster, the all-metal monster the Kalinin K-7, and hypersonic aircraft that fly seven times the speed of […]

]]> https://aviospace.org/caspian-sea-monster-ussrs-top-secret-ekrano-plan/#comment-6373 Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:30:19 +0000 https://aviospace.org/?p=1966#comment-6373 […] each other’s aviation efforts. The Soviet Union – the poster figure for communism designed colossi such as the Caspian Sea Monster– a bridge between an aircraft and a water-craft, and the metal monsters such as the Kalinin […]

]]> https://aviospace.org/from-wright-brothers-to-jet-age-evolution-of-aviation-history/#comment-6372 Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:30:02 +0000 https://aviospace.org/?p=3789#comment-6372 […] has been just over a century since passengers have been able to fly commercially. During this time, we have seen giants such as the Airbus A380, […]

]]> https://aviospace.org/antonov-an-225-mriya-rebuild-latest/#comment-6371 Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:24:15 +0000 https://aviospace.org/?p=9189#comment-6371 […] During an airstrike by the Russian Airborne Forces on Hostomel Airport on February 24, 2022, the An-225, along with several Antonov-owned facilities around the airport, was destroyed.  […]

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