The Bendix DRA-12 Doppler: The Box That Retired the Navigator
On 1 October 1962, two TWA Boeing 707s crossed the Atlantic without a navigator on board. There was…
Silver Crown: The History of King Radio
If Collins Radio owned the airline flight deck, then for a generation of pilots flying Cessnas, Pipers and…
Dreamliner vs A350 XWB: The Carbon-Fibre Rivalry That Redrew the Long-Haul Map
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner and the Airbus A350 XWB were never designed as mirror images of one another.…
Why the Dreamliner Lets You Breathe Easier: The Truth About Cabin Pressure
Anyone who has stepped off a long-haul flight knows the feeling, the dull headache, the gritty eyes, the…
The 1976 Loss of Nomad VH-SUZ
On 6 August 1976 a prototype GAF Nomad VH-SUZ shed control of its tailplane barely a minute and…
The Rise of Civil Aviation in Australia: From Pioneer Airlines to the Post-War Era
The Growth of Regional Airlines (1934–1938) The period 1934 to 1938 saw great strides in the progress of…
Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia): AWA’s Role in Australian Aviation History
Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia): How AWA Shaped Sixty Two years of Australian Aviation. Flying Tin has covered the evolution…
The Rise and Fall of Ansett Airlines: The Forgotten Giant
The story of Ansett Airlines begins not in an airport, or even a hangar, but on the dusty…
A History of Air New Zealand
Before Air New Zealand: A Country That Needed Wings New Zealand is one of the most geographically isolated…
The Holyman Family: From the Strait to the Sky
How the Holyman family took their seafaring spirit aloft and built the airline that defined an era of…
Did Aviation Peak with the Concorde? The Rise and Fall of Supersonic Travel
There are moments in technological history when progress feels less like a straight line and more like a…