Ozark Air Lines almost didn’t make it off the drawing board. Back in the 1940s, the company – formed by four Missouri businessmen who were operating a small intrastate air service within the confines ...

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 ...

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 ...

Turboprop airliners are not an uncommon sight at America’s airports. But the first turboprop transport to operate in the United States was a modern marvel, the Vickers Viscount. It bridged the gap ...

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 ...

To our American readers, Happy Independence Day! Tonight, the skies above Washington, D.C., will reverberate with the roar of America’s military might as B-2 Spirit stealth bombers, joined by F-22 ...

In the mid-1950s, while most American aircraft manufacturers were concentrating on creating the first generation of jet airliners, Lockheed answered the call to design a 4-engine turboprop type ...

Operation Absolute Resolve details the aviation-driven mission that brought over 150 aircraft together to support the capture of Nicolás Maduro and his wife in Caracas. In the early hours of Saturday, ...

Fokker was a Dutch aircraft manufacturing company in the 20th century. At one point, it was the world’s largest aircraft manufacturer. After 86 years, it ceased operations. How did one of the world’s ...

My visit to The Sands Aviation 747. Exclusive video aboard the Boeing 747SP included. Over the years, there’s been curiosity into the operator of the untitled widebody aircraft at Las Vegas’s McCarran ...

During World War II, Great Britain and Germany deployed powerful 24-cylinder engines for their aircraft. Both nations began working on the engines before the war started. Ultimately, the British ...

The doorbell rings, and you accept a package delivered by FedEx, United Parcel Service (UPS), Amazon, or one of the other companies engaged in package transportation and delivery. Last night, that ...