Boeing 787 Dreamliner Finally Gets Off the Ground
Boeing today sent its new 787 Dreamliner on its maiden test flight, marking the first time a mostly composite airliner has taken to the air.
Let’s Scare the Passengers
If it wasn’t for company policy requiring me to go and find some smooth air, I’d just tighten my seat belt, put my arms up in the air and yell, “yeehaw!”
When I’m Looking Up, He’s Looking Down
It goes without saying that anyone who loves aviation instinctively looks up to the sky when they hear a plane passing over. It doesn’t matter what kind of plane, any time I hear that whine of prop or the roar of a jet, I alw...
Video: Space Shuttle Enterprise Demated from NASA Shuttle Carrier Aircraft 747: Time Lapse
Time lapse video of Space Shuttle Enterprise being removed from the top of the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft 747 at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on May 13, 2012. Video produced by NASA.
On This Day in Aviation History: February 17th
Asiana Airlines is established in 1988, Aloha comes out of bankruptcy protection in 2006, the Turkish prime minister survives a plane crash in London in 1959, and more...