‘Those bright lights we thought were from an aircraft on approach suddenly and almost instantaneously moved horizontally across the night sky by maybe 35 to 40 degrees and at a…
In 1987 Tom Cruise saved his co-star Elisabeth Shue’s life by stopping her from walking into a spinning helicopter blade on the set of the comedy-drama movie Cocktail. In 1987…
‘As a testament of how good the plane was, most of the Boeing 757’s built were still in service as late as 2018,’ Glenn Tomchik, former Boeing employee who worked…
Of the 1,574 747s built up to December of 2022 (when the final 747 left Boeing’s Everett Factory), somewhere between 22 and 28, depending on what you want to count,…
Despite both aircraft attempting to avoid each other, with the Pan Am Boeing 747 veering sharply onto the grass and the KLM Boeing 747 pulling up, they were unable to…
Since the Cessna 172 Skyhawk production began in 1956, over 43,000 units have been built, primarily for flight schools where it is commonly used for Private, Commercial and Instrument Rating…
Boeing built its first windowless jet airliners in the 1960s—and they flew as passenger-carrying jets from 1968 to 1992 Why are the passenger windows on aircraft so small? Would it…
The Columbia Model 107-II Vertol helicopter is the commercial model of the military variant, CH-46 Sea Knight Columbia Helicopters, the world’s leading heavy-lift helicopter OEM, MRO, and operator, announced today…
‘I went from flying a C-17 (heads up display, fly by wire, glass cockpit) to a 737 Next Gen (glass cockpit) and felt like I went back in time about…
‘The Boeing 737 is a garbage jet, and I flew it for years. It’s like a new 1960s plane with a modern instrument panel slapped on,’ John Tringali, former USAF…