Following a terrible month for aircraft deliveries, boss of the 737 programme has announced he will step down. Scott Campbell will take retirement following 30 years of service after failed Boeing 737 deliveries threaten to damage the company’s reputation. The Boeing 737 shortfall has never been worse. In July, they delivered just 39 commercial jets, of which 29 were single aisle aircraft. Is it a coincidence that the Boeing 737 boss steps down at the end of such a disastrous month? We think not.

Twenty people have died after a World War Two vintage aircraft crashed into a mountainside in eastern Switzerland, police say. The plane - a Junkers JU-52 HB-HOT - was carrying 17 passengers and three crew on a sightseeing flight when it took off on Saturday afternoon. Operator JU-Air said it was saddened by the news and it had set up a helpline for relatives. It has suspended all flights until further notice.

Throughout the 20th century, NASA made extensive use of wind tunnels to test and refine designs for airplanes, spacecraft, and many other vehicles and structures.

Researchers pushed a scaled-down version of their I-plane to seven times the speed of sound and say its double layer of wings held up surprisingly well

"The plane that's a ship. The ship that's a plane."

An aerial photographer explains precisely how he took this amazing photograph.

Experiment to map many of the airline flights between world airports. It's <strong>not</strong> showing real time positions (which would be amazing but I don't have that data) but rather, great-circle routes between major airports based on flight data from the Open Flights

The world’s first supersonic airliner was not the Anglo-French Concorde but a Soviet design intended to show the world the superiority of the USSR. Stephen Dowling reports.

The fundamental problem is a matter of physics: the energy density of jet fuel is way, way higher than the energy density of batteries.

At some point, we were socialized to hate flying.

Soon the Roskilde Airshow 2017 will be held. This is a photo from the 2015 event.

A pilot carried out a heart-stopping emergency landing during which he couldn't see – after giant hailstones shattered the windscreen of his severely damaged jet. Captain Alexander Akopov picked up the Ukrainian Order For Courage in his home country after landing the Airbus A320 at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport on Thursday.

For all its reputation as a miracle of motion at the forefront of all things travel, supersonic aviation is both mired in the past and weighed down by a future laden with question marks.

Survival is less about heroic actions than avoiding mindless mistakes.

Just when you thought flying couldn't get any worse. Have you ever noticed that flight attendants never drink hot water during the flight?

Airplanes can't fly because it's too hot? That's crazy. No, not if you understand the science behind it.

Which ones are you guilty of?

If you’ve ever traveled on a commercial airplane, there’s a likely chance you’ve noticed those little white swirls in the center of those engines on the wings. It may seem straightforward: to keep people on the ground advised when the turbofan is spinning, right? But that doesn’t explain everything.

The latest reboot of The Mummy is all you should expect from a Hollywood blockbuster on an ancient Egyptian curse. But what about the science?