Planes & Chess Weekly Newsletter 4/25/2026
Planes & Chess Weekly Newsletter 4/18/2026
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Logbook Chronicles: Stories From Aviation Past
Log Entry: 18th April, 1942 (84 years ago today) The Event: The Doolittle Raid. Location: The carrier USS Hornet, somewhere in the Pacific. Personnel and Equipment Involved: 16 B-25 Mitchell bombers and 80 crew under the command of Lieutenan...
Planes & Chess Weekly Newsletter 4/11/2026
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Artemis II Splashes Down
The crew of the historic Artemis II mission successfully re-entered the earth’s atmosphere and splashed down off the San Diego coast. The four astronauts, Victor Glover, Christine Koch, Canadian Jeremy Hansen, and commander Reed Wiseman are ...
Planes & Chess Weekly Newsletter 4/4/2026
Airbus Announces A390
The Airbus A390, the long sought-after triple-decker airliner is here! With so many new introductions on this specific, totally un-special day in the beginning of April, like the introduction of chessboxing on chess.com's website, the A390 is just...
Flagging
Recently, we've been playing a lot of matches and I just wanted to create a new rule on flagging. Here it is: you've flagged in a P&C daily match more than 4 times, you'll be banned from playing in matches. Honestly, the ban is pretty fl...
Plane & Chess Weekly Newsletter 3/28/2026
Air Canada flight 8646: What Happened
On March 22nd, 2026 at 23:40 local time, Air Canada Flight 8646 touched down at LaGuardia airport in New York City, USA. Going at well over 100 mph on the runway, it collided with a fire truck, smashing the cabin and killing the pilot, Antoine For...
Planes & Chess Weekly Newsletter 3/21/2026
Planes & Chess Weekly Newsletter 3/14/2026
Logbook Chronicles: Stories From Aviation Past
Log Entry: March 10th, 1967 (59 years ago yesterday) The Event: Pardo's Push. Location: The skies over North Vietnam. Personnel Involved: Capt. John R. "Bob" Pardo and WSO 1st Lt. Steve Wayne (lead F-4) with Capt. Earl Aman an...
The Spitfire at 90: A Look in the Past
(Fun fact: this also happens to be Planes & Chess' 90th announcement) The Supermarine Spitfire was perhaps the most iconic British fighter in World War II. Since its first flight 90 years ago, in 1936, over 20,000 Spitfires were built, servi...
Planes & Chess Weekly Newsletter 3/7/2026
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Planes & Chess Weekly Newsletter 2/28/2026
Last Call for Team Match!
Last call to join the Planes & Chess under 500 daily match! No one from Planes & Chess has joined this match yet. If it is still at 0 by tomorrow I'll cancel the match. If you meet the criteria, please join! Good luck!
Plane of the Week and Weekly Newsletter 2/21/2026
Last Call For Matches!
If anyone's interested in joining, we have 3 matches open. Anyone under 500 in daily is invited to join our under 500 match (needs more players). Anyone above 500 but under 800 in daily can join our under 800 match We need good Chess96...
Plane of the Week and Weekly Newsletter 2/14/2026
Planes & Chess Weekly Newsletter 2/7/2026
Plane of the Week and Weekly Newsletter 1/31/2026
Plane of the Week and Weekly Newsletter 1/24/2026
Plane of the Week and Weekly Newsletter 1/17/2026
Plane of the Week and Weekly Newsletter 1/10/2026
