A day of firsts: The Brooklyn Dodgers become the first baseball team to buy a plane, Pan Am launches the first all-cargo transatlantic service, a pope flies on a plane for the first time, Sputnik 1, the first satellite, falls o...
Spanish Typhoon shoots down four American F-15s in combat training. India seems to be a safe-haven for drunk pilots and a place where upgrades to First Class fail to produce all the amenities. An Ethiopian 737 crashes off the c...
Lufthansa on Monday flew its first Airbus A380 service between Germany and the United States, the new "super jumbo" jet landing at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport from Frankfurt.