RATED SPACEX
As Boeing fails and Trump pushes his great vanity project—Americans back on the moon by 2024—he tells us pointedly Elon Musk “is one of our very smart people we want to cherish.”
Clive Irving is senior consulting editor at Condé Nast Traveler, specializing in aviation; and the author of Wide-Body: The Triumph of the 747 (Morrow).
opinion
NEVER FORGET
Albert Speer was closer to the Fuhrer than any other henchman—yet he literally got away with mass murder. How do such things happen?
FEAR OF CHOPPERS?
Humidity in the area reached 100 percent, indicating a fog dense enough to severely limit a pilot’s visibility.
NOSE DIVE!
Can it get any worse? Airlines turn to Europe to find the jet that gives them a future, not one that is still unsafe to fly.
opinion
PARTY TIME!
It may not be fair, but being seen enjoying the bejeweled hospitality of the bi-coastal elites can be the kiss of death for a candidate
HIT OR MISS
Hundreds of passengers flew the same route out of Tehran in the dark hours before the crash. Why did this plane go down?
WARNING SIGNS?
After a near-disaster on a Boeing 737-800 in 2018, investigators warned that an engine fan blade could turn into a missile and cripple a jet.
A CONTINENT IS COOKED
The apocalypse is so close that the people have to flee to the beaches, but climate change denial is taken to a new level of stupidity.
FEARFUL FLYING
The FAA is finally getting tough with Boeing, and CEO Dennis Muilenberg has just been fired—but the flaws that doomed 346 people still have to be fixed.
PALACE INTRIGUE
In 1969, “Royal Family” revealed the monarchy behind closed doors. But the BBC documentary has not been seen since 1972. Who made it disappear? And will it ever be broadcast again?
