Pan Am Begins First Mainland Flights to Hawaii, Harriet Quimby First Woman to Fly Across English Channel: April 16th in Aviation History
Pan Am flies from San Francisco to Hawaii with a Sikorsky S-42 flying boat, Harriet Quimby crosses the English Channel, Apollo 16 launches for the Moon, Canada forms its first air force, and more...
AirTran Introduces Their Fourth Logojet: “Magic 1”
AirTran Airways has painted one of their 717-200s in blue and black to celebrate the signing of Orlando Magic player Dwight Howard's signing to an advertising deal.
The Logbook: TSA Luggage Powder Planting…Just Kidding!
A TSA agent plays a joke on an unsuspecting passenger that sends him to another government service...the unemployment line. An errant US Airways CRJ is caught by an EMAS, Emirates to bring A380 back to JFK, Sully's water-logged...
March 11th in Aviation History: Air Force Jet Nearly Nukes Georgia Coast
China's first privately owned airline takes off while Canadian airline JetsGo stops going, Japan gets their first 767 AWACS, a B-47 jettisons a nuke, and more...
Delta 737 Slides Off Taxiway in Atlanta
A Delta Air Lines Boeing 737-700 suffered "significant damage" early Tuesday morning when it rolled off a taxiway and down a hill in Atlanta. Only two maintenance workers were on the plane at the time and both escaped without i...