Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A couple of thousand feet below me, a Spitfire skims above the grass of Booker Airfield. It climbs through the ...

It starts with a tow rope – the nylon cord linking a gleaming, long-winged glider to the single-engine airplane that will boost it skyward. The launch is lumpy and ungainly; as the propeller plane ...