Aviation
The Atlantic covers news, politics, culture, technology, health, and more, through its articles, podcasts, videos, and flagship magazine.
The Atlantic covers news, politics, culture, technology, health, and more, through its articles, podcasts, videos, and flagship magazine.
One mystery solved, many to go.
Technology, our friend and foe: Chapter 3,189.
The role of engineers, pilots, coaches, and God in the path toward disaster -- or safety.
It's all about Confucian culture. Or circadian rhythms. Or personality. Or maybe something else.
On a light-wind, clear-skies day, a team of professional pilots flew a normally functioning airplane smack into the runway. What have we learned about the cause?
A mix of news, more good than bad, all with aerial themes
Air travel as indicator of fray points in society
Why not call it 'spatial profiling'?
"At this point I was shaking in my boots. I was absolutely concerned they were going to plant something in my aircraft."
Why does this make me think of the Iran-Iraq war?
The writer was telling us "what he heard and felt." Not necessarily what occurred.
The editor of the New York Times Magazine gives further details about this controversial account.
Maybe this all happened. But if so, it was an even stranger flight than it seemed.
Stop-and-frisk, in the skies
The TL;DR version of stop-and-frisk taking to the skies
"I figured at this point that I was being hijacked by drug dealers who were going to steal my plane." But no, it was the Feds.
One more reason why it matters that the open-ended "war on terror" come to a close. Plus the "war on drugs."
"My dad fought a war so this can never happen in America. I will not dishonor my father's memory by giving up what he fought for. No, sir. With all due respect, I will not consent to a search without a proper warrant."
We all notice the parts of security-overreach that affect us.
Five years of that magical combination of small airports and craft brews.