The 727 wins ‘cool points’ for its tri-jet configuration, three engines handsomely placed below a T-tail. The T-tail, with ...
Many of the airliners that professional data trackers can no longer account for are believed to have disappeared somewhere in Africa, an enormous land mass with a number of countries that have weak ...
Commercial airliners crashed at a rate of one for every 3.1 million flights worldwide in 2015 – making last year one of the safest on record, industry officials said Monday. The four fatal crashes ...
There are plenty of discussion forums, blogs, and websites that can give you more information on the airline industry, but when it comes to sheer volume of information, it's tough to beat ...
According to the Aircraft Fleet Recycling Association (AFRA), anywhere between 400 to 500 cargo and passenger airplanes are recycled annually in America. Of all those giant airliners, little Cessnas, ...
Airline travel is one of the safest forms of transportation, with the International Air Transport Association (IATA) reporting that there were an average of just 0.07 passenger fatalities for every ...
The Boeing 307 Stratoliner in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020. [Courtesy: Patrick Chovanec] Today in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, I’ll be flying the Boeing 307 Stratoliner, the first commercial ...
I love airplanes. I love flying. Hell, I even love airports. There's just something about it that really gets my goat. This love of flying really took off (heh) after I started working at Jalopnik.
Even before Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law authorizing the seizure of hundreds of Western-built aircraft leased and operated by Russian airlines on Monday, questions had swirled over ...
A powerful winter snowstorm slams the airport, reducing visibility to almost nothing. Snow blasts across runways as airliners ...