The published “world’s longest runway” lists do not actually agree on what they are measuring. Once you separate paved from lakebed, historical from active, and testing from scheduled service, the leaderboard settles down. The most defensible answer is a tie:…

Six airport control towers dominate published "tallest" lists, and the figures attached to them shift depending on where the measuring tape stops. This piece covers the six towers with reported height data — KLIA Tower West and East, Suvarnabhumi, Haneda,…

Yes, a jet blast at Maho Beach killed a 57-year-old New Zealand tourist on July 12, 2017. She was clinging to the perimeter fence at Princess Juliana International Airport when the thrust from a departing Boeing 737 threw her backward…

A runway's number comes from its magnetic heading, rounded to the nearest ten degrees and divided by ten. When Earth's magnetic field drifts far enough that the rounded heading changes — a shift of more than five degrees in operational…

Landing at Tenzing-Hillary Airport in Lukla requires a CAAN-mandated mountain flying standard and prior short takeoff and landing experience. But the exact threshold is not published anywhere travelers can check it. Widely repeated figures — 100 STOL missions and ten…