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What's flying overhead
Short, sourced reads on aircraft, airports and how to tell what you are looking at.
The Challenger That Isn't One
The Challenger 300 shares its name with the Challenger 600 and almost nothing else. Bombardier drew it from scratch and called it the Continental.
Your flight starts landing a lot earlier than you think
A flight home from Verona spent 28 of its 96 minutes descending, starting near Amiens, about 120 nautical miles out. Here's why every flight does the same.
Britain is building Islanders again
On Thursday 3 September, at 2.25 in the afternoon, an aeroplane took off from Bembridge on the Isle of Wight that hadn't been possible for more than fifty…
How to spot a Gulfstream from across an apron
I was standing on the apron at Verona this morning, about ten o'clock, wet concrete and low cloud, when this taxied past and parked. OE-ICS. I knew what it…