On 6 March 1990, pilot Colonel Ed Yielding and reconnaissance systems officer (RSO) Colonel Joseph Vida departed Palmdale in California flying U. S. Air Force SR-71 (serial number 61-17972). This was ...
From the Hempstead Plains to the Moon, explore the story of flight at the Cradle of Aviation Museum. The Cradle of Aviation Museum, located on Museum Row in Garden City near the Coliseum, Nassau ...
With large groups of people needing to travel all across the country, one company easily saw an opportunity to do business with several sports teams that had to fly to 20 to 30 destinations in a ...
The Douglas Skystreak was more than a record-setter. It provided the data that made the leap to supersonic flight possible. On 15 March 1944, as Allied forces prepared for the invasions of Normandy ...
Airliner technology continues to evolve year-after-year, in the pursuit of better fuel economy which leads to better financial yields for operators. There’s been a number of initiatives over the years ...
USGlobal Airways remains a curious outlier in aviation history—an airline that, despite existing for over 30 years, never operated one commercial flight. Many airlines fade into obscurity without ...
The thought of eVTOL aircraft excites millions of travelers. Those who live in or visit Chicago in particular are in for some pleasing news, as a local manufacturer plans to order 50 eVTOL aircraft, ...
Although ‘the miracle on the levee’ doesn’t stick the same as ‘Sully’s Miracle on the Hudson’, TACA flight 110 was truly a miracle. On May 24, 1988, a brand new TACA Boeing 737-300 departed from ...
The 1960s gave birth to an incredible aircraft—a military aircraft to replace the best strategic bombers to date. It was so well designed that it could fly faster and carry a payload greater than the ...
Early long-range jet airliners included types produced by rivals Boeing and Douglas, which produced the 707 and DC-8, respectively In the United States, Boeing and Douglas quickly became dominant ...
EASA has issued an Airbus A320 emergency airworthiness directive after a JetBlue A320 suffered an uncommanded altitude drop and diverted to Tampa last month. The European Union Aviation Safety Agency ...
A Cessna 172 holds the record for the longest endurance flight in history: 64 days, 22 hours, and 19 minutes from 4 December 1958 to 23 January 1959. Flying over Nevada and California, pilots Robert ...
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