Bjorn Fehrm

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An employee works in the cockpit of a 737 MAX airplane at a Boeing plant in the US. Add-on features can be big money-makers for plane manufacturers. Photograph: The New York Times
Doomed Boeing jets lacked two safety features plane maker sold as extras

As the pilots of the doomed Boeing jets in Ethiopia and Indonesia fought to control their planes, they lacked two notable safety features in their coc(...)

An artist’s impression shows Boom’s 55-seat supersonic aircraft. Photograph: Reuters
Sonic boom or bust? Dreams of super-fast jet travel revival face headwinds

Supersonic passenger travel, which died out with the Concorde’s demise in 2003, will make a comeback by the mid-2020s if three entrepreneurial US-base(...)