One of Virgin Galactic’s sub-orbital space craft has been dubbed the VSS Enterprise.
On a cold and windy night at the Mojave Air and Space Port, the VSS Enterprise was unveiled to the public tonight. Attached to its mother ship, the vehicle better known as SpaceShipTwo is expected to be the first commercial spacecraft when [...]

Driving to the airport in darkness, an aeroplane awaits on a tarmac lit only by edge lamps, and so commences an odyssey to distant and exotic places… forgive me my reminiscings of the long vanished romance of flying.

A look at some actual and also some (very) fanciful aircraft cabin design over the last 100 or so years.
Steel-tubed furniture made its first appearance in airplane cabins as early as 1915. By 1919, corrugated metal seats and cantilevered chairs appeared in the passenger compartments of Junkers airliners. These developments not only anticipate Jean Prouvé’s [...]

From a longer piece on the demise of interplanetary travel and exploration, a paragraph describing the actual landing of the Apollo 11 lunar module, Eagle.
Landing any craft that is in flight is always a tricky task, compounded in the case of the Apollo Moon missions by the fact there are no second chances, overshoots, [...]

There has been talk of airships returning to the skies for sometime, and if they look half as sleek as some of the designs being considered, the airways will be all the better for their reappearance.
Jetfuel currently accounts for twelve percent of the CO2 emissions in the United States. With increases in air travel, once [...]

We looked at the cockpit the other week, now check out the rest of the Airbus A380, and glimpse the future of business and luxury air travel.
Is it just me, and my obviously one-track mind, but isn’t a shower on an aircraft asking for trouble somewhat?
Via Coudal Partners.

Rotate, scan, and zoom, see the whole of an Airbus A380 cockpit. Very cool.
Thanks Crumpet.