December 13, 2022
Today in Microsoft Flight Simulator, I’ll be flying the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, a Cold War airplane with a checkered history that demonstrated that speed isn’t everything. And to kick us off this morning, I’m at Edwards Air Force Base in California’s Mojave Desert, with a reincarnation of the same plane that Chuck Yeager crashed trying […]
December 13, 2022
Today on Microsoft Flight Simulator, I’ll be flying the Boeing 247, considered by many the first modern airliner, but one that fatefully lost out to a rival that – had Boeing played its cards right – didn’t need to exist. I’m here at San Francisco International Airport, where on May 22, 1933, a 247 belonging […]
December 13, 2022
Today in Microsoft Flight Simulator I’m at Kitty Hawk to reenact the first-ever flight of the world’s very first airplane, the 1903 Wright Flyer. At first glance, the boxy Wright Flyer doesn’t look much our modern notion of an airplane. In fact, it possesses all the key features that still define an airplane to this […]