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Today’s flyers want to fly further, faster, and in style, all while paying less (Credit: NurPhoto/Getty Images)
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How long-haul travel may change

By Ashley Nunes

FlyZero front view (Credit: FlyZero)
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The quest for hydrogen-powered planes
By Mark Piesing
Artwork of helicopter above Mars (Credit: Nasa/JPL)
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Building aircraft for other planets
By Mark Piesing
A worker holds a box delivered by drone (Credit: Stephen Lam/Reuters/Alamy)
Change Agents
The 'flying doctors' saving lives
Nasa is among those testing the viability of biofuels for use in large jet engines (Credit: Heritage Space/Getty Images)
2045: Memories of the Future
Is seaweed the future of flying?
By Pascal Kwesiga
Today aircraft play a crucial role in bringing in supplies for the many scientists that live and work at bases in Antarctica (Credit: Vittoriano Rastelli/Getty Images)
Antarctica
The planes that conquered Antarctica
By Mark Piesing
Lockheed U-2 (Credit: Lockheed Martin)
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The spy plane still flying 65 years on
By Mark Piesing
Pilot climbing into Hurricane (Credit: Oli Scarff/Getty Images)
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The other fighter that saved Britain
By Stephen Dowling
Tu-144 in flight (Credit: Science Photo Library)
Best of BBC Future
The flawed Soviet rival to Concorde
By Stephen Dowling
Parked airliners during lockdown (Creidt: Getty Images)
Aircraft
Will Covid-19 kill air travel?
By Ashley Nunes
Boeing 747 (Credit: Getty Images)
Lockdown Longreads
The plane that shrank the world
By Stephen Dowling
Avro CF-105 Arrow (Credit: Avro Canada/Canada Aviation and Space Museum)
Design
The plane too ahead of its time
By Mark Piesing
Harbour Air is hoping that it can lead an aviation revolution by becoming the first airline to offer commercial airline flights in electric planes (Credit: Diane Selkirk)
Future Planet
The electric plane leading a revolution
By Diane Selkirk
Lockheed Martin airship design (Credit: Lockheed Martin)
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The shape of airships to come?
By Mark Piesing
Cockpit of airliner (Credit: Getty Images)
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What may kill the pilotless airliner
By Ashley Nunes
Boeing 747s at Everett (Credit: Getty Images)
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The biggest building in the world
By Stephen Dowling