Photos: Space Shuttle Enterprise on Display at Intrepid Museum
The High Risk Job of a Military Charter Loadmaster
People jumped onto the internet Tuesday and saw the shockingly intense video of Monday’s National Airlines 747 crash that took place just after takeoff from Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan. Though it is so very early in the in...
The Why, How and Where of Flight Diversions
While diversions do happen frequently, the decision to land a plane perhaps hundreds or thousands of miles from its destination is not taken lightly. A look at why planes divert and how pilots, dispatchers and managers choose w...
Betting On Industry Recovery, Boeing Boosts Production Rates of 747 and 787
Betting on an airline industry recovery by the end of the year and a return to profitability in 2011, Chicago-based Boeing announced today that it will increase production rates on its popular 777 and 747 jumbo jet lines.
Final Call: TSA Admits Elderly Strip Search Screw Up, Airbus Finds Cause of A380 Wing Cracks
TSA officials now say procedures were not followed when two elderly women were strip searched, a review of the world's longest economy class flight, Airbus and Boeing both have issues with their largest jets, and more...
A Wicked Winter’s Eve in the Skies: Pilots DO Feel Bad When Weather Delays Your Flight
Out of sight and out of mind is such an easy mindset to fall into, but down a winding jetway, a flight crew sits in the front of a widebody airliner and truly feels badly for the delays that mother nature is throwing at their c...