Gallery: Project Renderings of Delta’s New JFK Terminal
160 Photos of Lufthansa’s First Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental
Formally delivered late last week, the first Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental actually flew home to Frankfurt with its Lufthansa owners on Tuesday.
Nine Killed as Skydiving Plane Crashes in New Zealand
A small plane, believed to be carrying at least five people, crashed at Fox Glacier in New Zealand on Saturday afternoon.
Pearl Harbor Attacked, Last Moon Mission Launched: December 7th In Aviation History
"A day which will live in infamy," air marshals shoot a passenger, a USAir employee deliberately crashes a plane, and more...
What They Don’t Teach You in Ground School, Part II: Mistresses, Wives and the Mile High Club
(Editor’s note: part one of this series can be read here.) The flustered aircraft salesman walks past the front desk of the FBO pulling at his tie, a permanent blush to his cheeks; for some reason, he can’t look me in t...
Researching Weather and Climate Change at 35,000ft
Over 40 years ago, airliners started being used to collect high altitude air samples for climate research. Today that research continues, and has been expanded to improve weather forecasting and also better understand the effec...