On a gloomy Thanksgiving Eve in 1971, a man in a black suit, thin raincoat, and clip-on tie paid $20 in cash for a one-way ticket. He walked onto a Boeing 727, took his seat near the back of the cabin ...

Breeze Airways has achieved a milestone that few US carriers have reached in recent memory. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has granted Breeze flag carrier status, clearing the way for ...

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 ...

General Dynamics (GD) entered one of their designs in the Enhanced Tactical Fighter (ETF) competition to replace the F-111 but lost out to what became the McDonnell Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle. Of ...

The story of UAL Flight 232 rewrote aviation history. On 19 July 1989, McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 serial number 46618/118 registered as N1819U and flying as United Airlines (UA) flight 232, departed ...

World War I Ace Eddie Rickenbacker Was Just One of the Many Saved by the Mighty OS2U.

On 6 March 1990, pilot Colonel Ed Yielding and reconnaissance systems officer (RSO) Colonel Joseph Vida departed Palmdale in California flying U. S. Air Force SR-71 (serial number 61-17972). This was ...

Early long-range jet airliners included types produced by rivals Boeing and Douglas, which produced the 707 and DC-8, respectively In the United States, Boeing and Douglas quickly became dominant ...

Tower Air – If you haven’t heard of that airline before, then consider yourself lucky. Though it may not be the worst airline to ever exist, it is definitely in contention. They’re widely considered ...

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 ...

On Sunday, 1 August 1943, 177 USAAF B-24 Liberators departed their bases near Benghazi, Libya and headed out over the Mediterranean Sea toward Romania. Their targets were the oil refineries near ...

You don’t need to be an astute observer to notice that hangars—those utilitarian metal boxes that house planes but often lack personality or purpose beyond storage—haven’t really evolved very much ...