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 ...

Boeing and McDonnell Douglas agreed to a merger in December, 1996. At the time, Phil Condit, then CEO of Boeing, called the acquisition a “historic moment in aviation and aerospace”. The past 28 years ...

JetZero has designed its new blended wing aircraft, the Z4, to carry 250 passengers, similar to the capacity of the Boeing 757. In some ways, it will be quite similar to aircraft flying today. The Z4 ...

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 ...

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 new Volonaut Airbike promises to be an exciting new option for personal air mobility. Designed by Polish inventor and entrepreneur Tomasz Patan, the Volonaut looks like something from “Star Wars.” ...

The Boeing 747 Dreamlifter is a modified wide-body cargo aircraft from the Boeing 747-400. Its unusual shape resembles the Oscar Meyer Weiner mobile or a beluga whale. The Dreamlifter boasts the world ...

We remember Western Airlines, one of America’s iconic air carriers that offered innovative in-flight service. It is Tuesday, 7 May 1957, and you are a passenger aboard Western Airlines Flight 70, a ...

While the flying car might be within civilization’s grasp today, some crafty California engineers in 1973 attempted to bring the future of personal flying closer. The AVE Mizar was literally a Ford ...

Thirty-one years have passed since the harrowing crash of USAir Flight 427 on the evening of 8 September 1994. I remember that evening with piercing clarity. It was a Thursday, one of those golden ...

National Airlines got its start in 1934 when Ted Baker and his associate, Don Franklin, successfully bid for AM (Air Mail) Route 31 between St. Petersburg and Daytona Beach, Florida, via Tampa, ...

In 2006, Boeing began using chevrons, or scalloped edges, on turbofans mainly for noise reduction. They added the chevrons to engines on the fan ducts on the 737 MAX, B787 Dreamliner, and 747-800.