Sir Richard Branson (R) and designer Burt Rutan stand behind SpaceShip2 just after its successful landing in Mojave, Ca. (Photo courtesy of Virgin Galactic)
Pan Am receives the first Boeing 377 Stratocruiser, Ham the Chimp visits space, an Alaska Airlines MD-80 crashes off the coast of California, and more...
Flying, at least commercially, is sort of humdrum for me these days. I guess that when you fly at least four times a month for two years, the magic of rocketing through the sky five miles up in a chair wears off. It doesn’t h...