‘He was flabbergasted. All four flight attendants pampered him and told me his name was Lloyd, so I patterned all my PAs to him,’ Boeing 727 flight engineer and airline…
Due to the American noise regulations, Braniff Airways Concorde supersonic airliners were limited to Mach 0.95 yet they flew at slightly above Mach 1. The Aérospatiale/British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) Concorde…
A pilot is usually fired either before or after a flight, even if there is a third pilot on board (for rest breaks) to fill the seat. ‘A pilot is…
British Airways Boeing 747 flight BA 009, flown by Captain Eric Moody, lost thrust from all four engines at 37,000ft. In the past 40 years, several jet-powered commercial airplanes have…
‘It’s a very different aircraft from the jets I flew, and despite being much lower performance, the Cessna 172 is perfectly capable of killing you when it impacts the ground,’…
The time-lapse video in this post features the manufacturing of the X-59 QueSST and includes the merger of its main sections – the wing, tail assembly, and fuselage or forward…
Bigger and more powerful than the Concorde, under the surface the Tu-144 lacked the advanced internals, engine and braking technology of the Anglo-French supersonic airliner. In the heat of the…
Supercruising at Mach 2.0 for hours to traverse the Atlantic, Concorde could effectively outrun a nuclear blast and catch up with the sun. The Concorde supersonic passenger jet airliner was…
The rumor is… that a test flight SR-71 Blackbird flew over Johnson’s ranch and broke several of his large windows. But he didn’t have the nerve to make a complaint……
The impressive video in this post shows the giant Antonov An-225 Mriya blowing away the perimeter fence of the base runway at the moment of the takeoff. Taken on Jun.…