Boeing’s successful Chinook autonomous landing highlights the Army’s progress toward adding more autonomy to its helicopter fleet. On 16 April 2026, Boeing announced that a US Army CH-47F Chinook ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 was flown by two cockpit crew members and attended to by two cabin attendants. Of the former, Captain James E. Reeves, 49, held type ratings on the Convair 240, 340, and ...

It may sound improbable today, but there was a time when Alaska Airlines Russia flights were a regular fixture in the skies. In an era when US–Russia relations are at a deep freeze, the idea of ...

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 ...

There are many reasons why I feel fortunate to have grown up in the 80s and 90s. We were the last generation to experience life without the Internet and social media. Today’s kids will never know what ...

The inflight footage of the P2V-5F firing rockets, practicing drops, and rigging the merchant shipping traffic (and the Lightship Portland off the coast of Maine) is of a VP-661 P2V-5F BuNo 128379.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...