Civil Aviation
The MC-21 has wings, engines, a passenger cabin and years of flight testing behind it. It even received its initial type certificate back in December 2021. Yet ...
Danila Karpenko
In civil aviation, range is not just a specification. That's the freedom to choose your own route. The farther an aircraft can fly without landing, the ...
As a follow-up to the article “The Il-62 Returns to the Skies,” I’d like to share a story about yet another “stopgap” aircraft intended to replace the retiring ...
Sometimes the most interesting story isn’t about a new aircraft, but rather a temporary solution that had to be developed on an urgent basis. In the U.S., the ...
In early 2026, the aviation industry received an unexpected boost. COMAC officially unveiled the preliminary specifications for its new project—the C949 ...
The name of the SALIS program originally contained a word that now sounds almost ironic: Interim. In 2006, several NATO countries agreed to jointly charter ...
As Russian civil aviation shifts its focus toward domestically produced aircraft, the question of choosing between the time-tested Tu-214 and the promising ...
In the world of commercial aviation, there is a special category of technology that remains hidden from the average passenger but determines the ...
The maiden flight of the passenger version of the TVRS-44 “Ladoga” is still expected in 2026, but civilian airlines are unlikely to see this aircraft in its ...
The Chinese ground-effect vehicle, unofficially nicknamed the “Bohai Sea Monster,” has reappeared in new photos—and it’s now clear that this is likely not a ...