Flying on September 11, an Air Force C-37 pilot recalls the moment America’s airspace shut down and the extraordinary days that followed at MacDill.

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 ...

Although the short-range, low-capacity segment of the market was saturated with twin-jet designs, inclusive of the Sud-Aviation SE.210 Caravelle, the British Aircraft Corporation BAC-111, the ...

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 ...

Have you ever wondered how aircraft manufacturers deliver new smaller aircraft over long distances? What about ferrying them to the mainland for heavy maintenance checks? Generally speaking, aircraft ...

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, ...

The Maryland Air National Guard (ANG) said goodbye to their last two A-10s this week. It marks the end of Maryland’s ANG flying operations, making Maryland the first state to be without a ANG flying ...

On the afternoon of 6 October 1973, the Yom Kippur War began with a massive Egyptian air attack on Israeli military installations. Among the targets was Israeli Air Force (IAF) Base Ofira, near Sharm ...

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 ...

Southern Airways Flight 49 became one of aviation history’s most extraordinary hijackings, sending a DC-9 across multiple countries during a tense 30-hour saga. Demonstrating its ruggedness, endurance ...

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 ...

F-4 Phantom fighter pilot ACE, Randy “Duke” Cunningham, has died at age 83. His decorated Navy career in the Vietnam war became the stuff of legend, after shooting down 5 enemy MiGs – and being shot ...