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Photos: Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental Takes Off on First Flight
Boeing’s 747-8 Intercontinental took off Sunday from Paine Field, kicking off the flight test program for the longest passenger aircraft in the world and the largest plane ever built by Boeing.
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...
The New Geography of Hubs
US airlines have cut costs, slashed workforces and, largely, evolved to fee-based revenue models. But one of the biggest, and sometimes overlooked, changes was the consolidation and retrenchment of hub airports since 2000. Whil...
Delta Reports Traffic Increases for July
Delta Air Lines on Wednesday reported traffic results for July 2010, which included upticks in overall traffic, load factor and international traffic.
On This Day in Aviation History: April 3rd
ATA files for bankruptcy, US Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown is killed in a US Air Force plane crash, Pan Am founder Juan Trippe dies, and more...