Kate Coldwind

The islands of Orkney, off the northernmost tip of Scotland, have long been one of my favourite places. My "spiritual…

For the customer, the flier, the plane-watcher, it can sometimes seem as though an airline can appear out of nowhere;…

“Threading the needle”, they called it. The fine art of navigating your way between enemy radar sites without being detected,…

What do you get if you cross the sea with an aeroplane? Generally, you get a nice, fast, mostly smooth,…

Many of you will be familiar with home computer flight simulation. For some of you, as for me, it’ll be…

A BAE Systems Hawk training aircraft from the Royal Navy’s 736 Naval Air Squadron has crashed in Cornwall in south-west…

Newer technologies mean that VOR systems are, gradually, going away. Will you miss them when they're gone? More importantly, should…

To many, the ornithopter (a flapping-wing flying machine) was a footnote in history. But there is more to it than…