While the Brazilian e-jet producers caused a sensation at the Paris Air Show and then blew out their Birthday Candles, read more…

The name says it all – because it fits the flying machines as well as their pilots… Attention all aviation read more…

How can passengers reconcile climate protection and their own flying habits? Here are a few thought-provoking ideas. I don’t know read more…

The Grossglockner. As Austria’s tallest mountain, “the roof of Austria”, it stands out from all other mountains in the country read more…

Futuristic, energy-saving, airport-compatible: an avant-garde aircraft design could make flights more sustainable in 20 to 30 years. The TU Delft read more…

In times of worldwide student demonstrations and threatening climate forecasts, one climate killer is particularly pilloried: the airplane. More precisely, read more…

The 53rd Paris Air Show was held in Le Bourget from 17th to the 23rd of June. This was the read more…

Almost everyone who is at least moderately enthusiastic about aviation or has flown frequently can name the wingtips which are read more…

Build on the water – take off into the air! Why of all places was aviation history written at Lake read more…

There is always something new in the air – as shown by the founding of the joint venture Droniq and read more…

Fly once in a private jet from A to B – for many an unattainable dream. The tip of the read more…

Just before the end of the month, on May 29, 2019, Airbus celebrated its 50th anniversary, an event that – read more…

It is peaceful here at the Aachen-Merzbrück Airfield – and quiet, just like the “unidentified flying object” which was revealed read more…

Almost no-one takes off without batteries in their luggage. Gone are the days when we simply shoved a few clothes, read more…

When Boeing unveiled the 777 in 1994, no one had any idea how successful the wide-body twinjet, which was still read more…

Endless runway, never-ending story? There were controversial and heated arguments when the Dutch engineer Henk Hesselink presented his progressive runway read more…

The American billionaire broke world records over and over again. Steve Fossett’s specialisms were extreme and formidable until suddenly the read more…

A “shepherd boy with a degree” – in Thomas Enders’ own words – rose to become the world-renowned but abrasive read more…

The grand reveal: the concluding preparations for the inauguration of the Chinese capital’s new airport. Beijing Daxing was constructed on read more…

As the world’s largest aircraft, the “Stratolaunch”, took off on its maiden flight in mid-April (WingMag has already reported on read more…

Getting an airliner off the ground is one thing. Steering it gently and safely to its destination through narrow airspaces read more…

When an aircraft needs three days to travel between Munich and Hamburg it can mean only one thing: it’s been read more…

On 28th October 2018, a Lion Air Boeing 737 MAX 8 crashed into the sea shortly after taking off from read more…

The food, drink, blankets, toothbrushes and other items used in-flight create mountains of single-use plastic. Etihad pointed the way on read more…

The Thomas Cook Group (TC) announced two months ago that it was to sell its airline business. This announcement has read more…

The development took many years. On Saturday the 13th of April the time had finally come: “Stratolaunch”, the largest airplane read more…

Conveying passengers and freight swiftly above ground-level traffic jams, urban air mobility (UAM) is on the rise. The aviation industry, read more…

While the Aircraft Interiors Expo came to an end in Hamburg, a mega-class fleet relocation began in the Turkish metropolis read more…

Trade fairs like the Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg are a meeting place for innovation from all over the world. read more…

Massive demands are made on material and quality in aircraft construction. The speed of implementation is also exacting. The US read more…

TxV Aero Composites develops and builds new part solutions for civil aviation. The US company fully relies on the high-performance read more…

In the first part of this article we reported on how robotics are currently used in aircraft construction. Now we read more…

Red signals with a clear message. Also at the AIX 2019 in Hamburg! Red means stop. As the most intense read more…

From riveting robots to nanorobots that find problems in engines, robotics is the technology of the future. Robotization and automation read more…

When birds fly into turbines, there is always a danger that they paralyze the entire plane. It’s happened before. New read more…

If you’ve read the new whitepaper by our sponsor SFS “Digitize aviation – On the future of aircraft manufacturing”, you read more…

The engines have started. Thousands of kilograms of the most diverse materials swing into action, apparently with the greatest of read more…

Almost everyone has heard of Bitcoin. But now’s the time to get to know the IATA Coin: a blockchain-based cryptocurrency, read more…

As a passenger in an aircraft you can switch on the light, drink coffee, charge your mobile phone and even read more…

“Rien ne va plus” – nothing was going anywhere anymore at Gatwick Airport. And this slap bang in the middle read more…

Why do aircraft fly? The solution to this problem revolves around four opposing forces whose perfect interaction allows aircraft which read more…

As most people are aware, aircraft fly on aviation fuel. But there is another fluid that is essential for the read more…

Aviation has long been regarded as the safest means of transport – and in fact, it is becoming even safer. read more…

What international trends will the passenger cabin of the future follow? What demands will tomorrow’s passengers make on comfort and read more…

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a driving force, even in aviation. AI learns constantly, thinks independently, and works with its developers read more…

Soon excess material from the aircraft industry could find a new purpose. Boeing is collaborating with the British company ELG read more…

Urban air mobility (UAM) is dramatically increasing in significance. Although currently still grounded for development and evaluation, the first air read more…

Moving around the world in a large flying tin can is a major challenge for man and material as, amongst read more…

On 16th January 2018, an Etihad Airways Dreamliner made the trip from Abu Dhabi to Amsterdam using an unusual fuel: read more…

A selection of competent scientists, pilots, adventurers and sponsors have come together to achieve something big which will, without doubt, read more…

Things are progressing apace in e-plane research. In the southwest of England, Rolls-Royce is working with partners to develop a read more…

Flying over the Atlantic could be so simple. Lots of water, just keep going straight ahead! Unfortunately, as always in read more…

A commercial jet engine is a wonder of technology. Over time, engines in the aviation industry have become quieter, more read more…

How fast time flies… On January 1st, 2018 the first WingMag article went online. Since then a lot has happened read more…

If you’re a pilot, approaches to the world’s airports are generally pretty routine affairs and quite often the procedures and read more…

The climate protection organisation atmosfair specialises in travel, and one of its publications is its annual Airline Index. This ranks the biggest read more…

We are now all hunkering down in our warm, cosy houses after a seemingly never-ending summer. However flying is anything read more…

The Airbus Perlan Project is already nearing the end of its second phase. We have already covered Mission 2’s amazing read more…

The American technology company Aurora Flight Sciences Corp. unveiled an innovative new development on 14 November: “Odysseus”, which according to the company’s read more…

Our latitudes are increasing in temperature, the glaciers are melting, and resources are running out. What may, several years ago, read more…

Flight simulator? Surely a video game for your home computer? However, professional aviation also took advantage of the benefits of read more…

On 2nd September 2018, the Airbus Perlan Project team celebrated their third world record in what was a successful week. read more…

Aircraft are essentially flying IT systems. Apart from the critical flight systems, which are responsible for navigation and control, there read more…

Cheap producers are ten a penny in every sector – automotive, smartphones and now with drones too. Premium – only read more…

It’s really just the autopilot that’s flying the plane! The men and women in the front row of seats are read more…

The demands on materials and manufacturing processes in aviation are exacting: they need to be lightweight, stable, safe and cost-effective. read more…

He calls himself “Mad Mike” and is convinced that the Earth is flat – or could it just be a read more…

Our daily lives are dominated by a number of “modern” obstacles. Our world has been changed by the influence of read more…

Asking most small boys which plane they would one day most like to fly in used to result in the read more…

Can you still remember what you wanted to be when you were young? I’m pretty sure that being an astronaut read more…

In their single-engine propeller machines, the pilots of the Red Bull Air Race compete in impressive aviation contests all over read more…

An airport can often feel like a different world when you enter it. You emerge from the train or car read more…

Wingly, the Franco-German start-up, is one of the new flight sharing platforms on the market. Launched in 2016, the platform read more…

No doubt everyone has heard in the news about the famed “aircraft noise opponents”, a group often ridiculed by pilots. read more…