easyJet and Rolls-Royce have completed a major milestone in sustainable aviation: they ran a modern commercial jet engine on pure hydrogen from start-up through takeoff power and back down again. The test, which took place in late April 2026, is a significant step toward cleaner air travel.
Continue reading Rolls-Royce and easyJet Prove a Jet Engine Can Run on 100% Hydrogen
The past perfect (had + past participle) shows that one past action happened before another past action. When we tell a story in the past simple, the past perfect lets us step further back to explain the background.
Continue reading Structure: ‘Past perfect’
Spirit Airlines, once one of the biggest budget airlines in the United States, stopped all flights on May 2, 2026. The airline’s sudden collapse left thousands of passengers without travel plans and put 17,000 workers out of a job.
Continue reading Spirit Airlines Closes Its Doors: America’s Discount Carrier Is Gone
Listen to the recording as many times as you need. Six sentences that describe the incident are shown below in the wrong order. Use what you hear to number them from 1 to 6 in the correct sequence. When you are finished, check your answers against the transcript and the answer key below.
Continue reading Listening: Lightning Strike on Approach to Frankfurt
In standard English, sentences follow the pattern Subject + Auxiliary + Main Verb: The FAA has rarely issued such a broad directive. Inversion reverses this order, moving the auxiliary verb in front of the subject: Rarely has the FAA issued such a broad directive. The meaning stays the same, but the fronted element carries extra emphasis and the register becomes formal or literary.
Continue reading Structure: ‘Inversion’
A manufacturing process deviation affecting the centre fuselage of several Airbus A321neo variants has prompted the US Federal Aviation Administration to issue a formal airworthiness directive compelling operators to carry out repetitive structural inspections. The directive, published in the Federal Register on 15 April 2026, mirrors a corresponding European Union Aviation Safety Agency order issued a year earlier, underscoring the increasingly coordinated nature of transatlantic aviation regulatory oversight. The aircraft models affected — among the most commercially significant narrowbodies currently in service — are operated by major carriers across North America and beyond.
Continue reading FAA Orders Inspections on Airbus A321neo Fuselage