The Evolution of Engine Starting: From Hand-Propping to Button Pushing
For many of us, our first understanding on how to start an airplane was when Bugs Bunny started the engines of the “World’s Largest Airplane” in Hare Lift (FF to 2:04). With a simple push of a button, all of the radial en...
Pan Am Flight 103 Is Bombed: December 21st In Aviation History
Pan Am Flight 103 is bombed over Scotland, New York Airways begins helicopter flights from Manhattan's Pan Am Building and more...
British Airways Steward Who Made Fake Bomb Threat to Earn Promotion Gets 6 Months in Jail Instead
A British Airways steward who wrote a threat on the back of a toilet door during a flight to Tokyo has been sentenced to jail for six months.
Final Call: Smooth Flying for ANA’s First Dreamliners, American Under Fire Over Exec Townhouse in London
JetBlue chooses Pratt & Whitney geared turbofan engines for the A320neo, the F-35 program is a bigger mess than previously thought while the 787 flies reliably for ANA, and more...
Indonesian Air Traffic Up 15 Percent in 2011
Indonesia's Transportation Ministry on Wednesday announced that the country's passenger air traffic increased by 15 percent in 2011, when compared to the previous year.