The events around British Airways Boeing 747 flight BA 009 reveal the potential dangers of volcanic ash Plumes of volcanic ash near active volcanoes are a flight safety hazard, especially…
Unrestricted climb A zoom climb is a climb where the rate of climb is greater than the maximum climb rate using only the thrust of the aircraft’s engines. According to…
While operational, it was effectively impossible to intercept to all the jet fighters of its generation barring a stripped Electric Lightning pushed to the limit – including F-15, F-16 or…
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the chief of Russian mercenary group Wagner who staged a short-lived mutiny against Russia’s military leadership in June, was on board an Embraer Legacy 600 corporate jet that…
The MD-90 will be modified to test the Transonic Truss-Braced Wing (TTBW) configuration as part of NASA’s Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project Boeing has ferried an MD-90 airplane to the company’s…
The Concorde was craned out of the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York for a three-month restoration at Brooklyn Navy Yard until spring 2024, in front of…
‘I was controlling a westbound Concorde just entering my airspace when I received details of an SR-71 coming eastbound on a route that would conflict with Concorde,’ Pete Clarke, former…
‘This would be only the fellow’s third actual landing in an airliner. He’d had one good one and one not so good. This was going to be a demanding test…
The series of images in this article shows NASA’s X-59 as it sits on the flight line — the space between the hangar and the runway — at Lockheed Martin…
Concorde had the throttles set to 100% dry power on take-off and left them there. Reheat (afterburner) was used for 90 seconds on take-off and then for a short while…