March 15th in Aviation History: Fokker Stops Building Planes After 84 Years
Fokker quits building planes, Pan Am launches Airbus A300 service, and more...
Russian Jet Loses All Controls, Makes Miraculous Emergency Landing in Forest
Russian pilots successfully made an emergency landing in Taiga forest, saving the lives of 81 people, and causing minimum damage to the aircraft.
Naked Image Full Body Scanners To Be Taken Out Of US airports
The TSA has announced that airports will soon discontinue their use of controversial scanners which reveal nude images of passengers.
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...
Concorde Cockpit Videos: Takeoff, Acceleration and Landing
Awesome cockpit action from a British Airways Concorde flying from London Heathrow to JFK. Takeoff, supersonic acceleration and climb, descent and landing are shown in these three clips. Unbelievable how complex the cockpit was...