Nevil Gibson

1 week ago | nbr.co.nz | Nevil Gibson

Carry On: Paris Airshow deals, Boeing’s 20-year forecast, new routes. The new A$5.3 billion Western Sydney Airport (WSA) will be officially opened late next year, with a newly completed terminal and commitments from Qantas, Jetstar, Air New Zealand and Singapore Airlines already in place. It is located 44km from the central business district but boasts motorway links Want to read more? It's easy. Choose your subscription Already have an account?

1 week ago | nzherald.co.nz | Nevil Gibson

Burnt to the ground: The wartime bombing of Tokyo was devastating. Photo / Supplied The large-scale use of mass bombing – a core tactic in the European theatre – was only possible against Japan in the last two years of World War II. This was when B-29 Superfortress bombers came within range of the mainland from sites across the northeast Pacific in the summer of 1944. This strategy was viewed as a legitimate and effective use of air power.

1 week ago | nbr.co.nz | Nevil Gibson

ANALYSIS: Britain’s Science Media Centre founder tracks two decades of scandals. When President Donald Trump, in his second inaugural address last January, mistakenly credited Americans with splitting the atom, the reaction of shocked New Zealanders was immediate. In 1917, the Nelson-educated colonial scientist Ernest Rutherford, then at the University of Manchester, performed the first artificial nuclear reaction.

2 weeks ago | nbr.co.nz | Nevil Gibson

Trump lifts ban on transcontinental supersonic flight Carry On: Paris Airshow, Airbus deliveries, Beta’s first passenger flight. An artist’s impression of Boom Supersonic’s Overture airliner. The return of supersonic air travel has come closer with President Donald Trump’s executive order to repeal the 52-year-old ban on supersonic flights over the US mainland. The decision is expected to clear the way for a new era of potential high-speed commercial travel.

3 weeks ago | nbr.co.nz | Nevil Gibson

ANALYSIS: Dame Jacinda Ardern’s memoir is a publisher’s dream of female empowerment. Publishers have never under-estimated the appeal of prime ministerial memoirs, particularly if they are female. A primary example is Margaret Thatcher, a conviction politician who revelled in her reputation as the ‘“Iron Lady’ who resisted any concession to communism. In fact, the epithet was first used in a Soviet newspaper in 1977.