Morris Air was ‘the’ low-cost breakout airline of the 1990s. In an era that featured way more startup airlines than successes, Morris Air was one of the few on track to become a competitive force in ...

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 bright yellow jets may get yet another chance. Spirit Airlines is in advanced talks for a bailout. Here’s what we know. After weeks of uncertainty, Spirit Airlines may finally have a path forward.

Everyone knows that Texas is big – 268,596 square miles according to the Texas Almanac – bigger than all of the New England and the Mid-Atlantic states put together. So, it is little wonder that, when ...

The de Havilland Canada DHC-7, which was later named “Dash 7,” was the seventh and then-largest capacity aircraft to emerge from the Toronto and Downsivew, Ontario, manufacturer. It also served as the ...

The Commemorative Air Force c-47 ‘that’s all, brother’ flew in the initial wave of airborne assaults on normandy on d-day, helping pave the way for a hard-fought allied victory over the nazis. 75 ...

If an airline could wear a city like a jacket, New York Air did it. The little airline had attitude, but it never really gained enough altitude to survive the turbulent era of the late ’80s. New York ...

Capital placed an initial order for three Viscounts in May 1954, then quickly exercised options to buy 57 more, all of which were to be delivered over a period of two years. This was a massive ...

Mohawk Airlines certainly boasts a tumultuous past littered with crashes, fatalities, and even a hijacking. However, on the positive side, it was also known as the first U.S. airline to hire an ...

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 ...

Fokker was a Dutch aircraft manufacturing company in the 20th century. At one point, it was the world’s largest aircraft manufacturer. After 86 years, it ceased operations. How did one of the world’s ...

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 ...