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    • Tuesday, 14 March, 2023
      View from the CockpitTravel
      Jumbo vs Dreamliner: a pilot’s perspective

      As the last Boeing 747 enters service, Mark Vanhoenacker considers how flying the venerable ‘Queen of the Skies’ compares with its newer sibling

    • Monday, 6 February, 2023
      View from the CockpitTravel
      In praise of uniform

      I tip my cap to its practicality — and the sense of shared purpose it symbolises

    • Monday, 19 December, 2022
      View from the CockpitTravel
      At Christmas, airline crews are Santa’s helpers in the skies

      The holiday is both heartwarming and bittersweet for those ensuring millions of travellers reach their loved ones

    • Monday, 14 November, 2022
      View from the CockpitTravel
      Why the iPad is the pilot’s new best friend

      The humble tablet has revolutionised flying and made aviation more efficient

    • Monday, 27 June, 2022
      View from the CockpitTravel
      A pilot’s guide to beating jet lag

      Ice-cold showers, catnaps and ‘sleep hygiene’: tried-and-tested tactics from a longhaul professional

    • Monday, 16 May, 2022
      Travel
      A pilot’s paean to the great cities of the world

      For Mark Vanhoenacker, cities hold a special significance — and their post-pandemic reawakening is a joy to witness

    • Monday, 7 March, 2022
      View from the CockpitTravel
      Happy landings: how pilots tackle high winds

      Storm Eunice saw pilots putting into practice the ‘crabbing’ technique they train for

    • Monday, 24 January, 2022
      View from the CockpitTravel
      Wonder wheels: why aircraft tyres are a miracle of engineering

      With every take-off and landing, something remarkable is happening beneath the plane

    • Thursday, 16 December, 2021
      View from the CockpitTravel
      Flying in the far north: a story of magnetism and magic

      For pilots, flying in the high Arctic presents unique challenges — and rewards

    • Thursday, 11 November, 2021
      Travel
      A pilot’s rapturous return to transatlantic flight

      As the US travel ban lifted on Monday, Mark Vanhoenacker was in the cockpit heading for JFK — and reflecting on what we’ve missed

    • Tuesday, 18 February, 2020
      View from the CockpitTravel
      Calling ‘Iceman’: how pilots deal with winter weather

      Frozen deposits spell danger for an aircraft but there are different ways to solve them

    • Wednesday, 22 January, 2020
      Travel
      Jimmie Angel: the pioneering aviator and the world’s highest waterfall

      Rather than a religious allusion, Venezuela’s Angel Falls is named after a barnstorming Missouri-born pilot

    • Friday, 20 December, 2019
      View from the CockpitTravel
      The art of the airline map

      Designed to entertain and impress rather than for navigation, the maps also chart the evolution of aviation

    • Friday, 15 November, 2019
      Travel
      My first flight to Beijing’s spectacular ‘starfish’ airport

      Pilot Mark Vanhoenacker is dazzled by Daxing, Zaha Hadid’s $11bn creation

    • Friday, 1 November, 2019
      View from the CockpitTravel
      Why passengers have the best inflight maps

      The minimal maps used by pilots are in stark contrast to today’s vivid seatback displays

    • Friday, 20 September, 2019
      View from the CockpitTravel
      From sea to sky — a pilot’s life in shades of blue

      ‘Only after I started to fly did I realise blueness would be one of my job’s most reliable sources of joy’

    • Monday, 19 August, 2019
      View from the CockpitTravel
      What today’s pilots owe to space technology

      From navigation systems to managing teams, commercial airlines have learnt a lot from Nasa

    • Friday, 5 July, 2019
      View from the CockpitAccommodation in New York City
      Back to the future of flying: New York’s new TWA hotel 

      A former terminal now offers accommodation, runway views — and a glimpse of aviation’s golden age

    • Tuesday, 4 June, 2019
      View from the CockpitTravel
      A leap into the unknown: celebrating the centenary of the first transatlantic flight

      Alcock and Brown’s daring 1919 flight featured storms, a spin and a crash-landing in an Irish bog

    • Friday, 17 May, 2019
      View from the CockpitTravel
      Things that go bump in the flight: a guide to aircraft noises

      From the steady hum (it’s not always the engines) to a ‘dog’ barking in cargo, here’s what those sounds mean

    • Thursday, 11 April, 2019
      View from the CockpitTravel
      What do the lights on an aircraft mean?

      Why your jet is lit like a ship, and other lessons in aircraft illumination

    • Wednesday, 13 March, 2019
      View from the CockpitTravel
      The captain’s cabin: the secret suites where pilots sleep in-flight

      On long flights, pilots hand the controls to the ‘heavy crew’ and retreat to their beds

    • Wednesday, 13 February, 2019
      View from the CockpitTravel
      It’s not only astronauts who can see the Earth is round

      How flying offers new perspectives on the planet

    • Wednesday, 23 January, 2019
      View from the CockpitTravel
      How I fell in love with jumbo jets

      Other kids had posters of bands on their walls, I preferred flight decks

    • Tuesday, 27 February, 2018
      FT Best ofBest of Travel 2018
      Boeing out in style: a pilot’s final flight in a 747

      Mark Vanhoenacker bids farewell to the jet that made him fall in love with aviation

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