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.

It Was the Golden Age of Air Travel when the brand new, shiny Boeing 707 Astrojet took to the skies for American Airlines.

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 ...

In a move that was widely expected, American Airlines unveiled new crew and employee uniforms this past week. The update will be the first uniform refresh ...

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 ...

Fokker was founded in 1912 by Anthony Fokker, an aircraft engineer who was said to have worked in the aviation sector all his life and was at the time a twenty-year-old studying in Germany. After a ...

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 ...

Once a staple of long-haul travel and a symbol of Airbus’ ambition to rival Boeing’s widebodies, the four-engine Airbus A340 is now a rarity in commercial service. But it hasn’t vanished. As of May ...

During the 1970s, hijackings became an unsettling global phenomenon. A notable incident involved a Southern Airways flight, where hijackers held passengers and crew captive for over 24 hours, forcing ...

Chicago Midway Airport is a one mile square piece of land in the middle of a neighborhood. What’s the Biggest Plane to land at Chicago Midway Airport? Nestled in a neighborhood on the south west side ...

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 ...

For most people, his name brings to mind the roundhouse kick, the squint, the beard, his legendary toughness, and the lasting image of Walker, Texas Ranger. In the coming days, you’ll see and hear a ...