Rolls-Royce Discovers Cause of Qantas Airbus A380 Engine Explosion
Rolls-Royce on Friday announced that a single faulty component caused the engine failure on the Trent 900-powered Qantas A380 that was forced to make an emergency landing last week.
Video: Air Force One Takes Off from Seattle’s Boeing Field
In honor of President's Day, a video by Alex Jossi of the world's most famous Boeing 747 taking off from Boeing Field's Runway 31 this past August.
Video: Libyan Air Force Fighter Pilots Defect to Malta with Dassault Mirage F1 Jets
Two Libyan Air Force colonels flew their Dassault Mirage F1 fighter jets to Malta and defected rather than obeying orders to bomb protesters in Libya.
On This Day in Aviation History: December 23rd
The deaths of two aviation greats; Andrei Tupolev in 1972 and Anthony Fokker in 1939. The B-1 Lancer makes its first flight in 1974, the first dogfight with a UAV in 2002 and the crashes of Azerbaijan Flight 217 in 2005 and Ali...
Inside the US Coast Guard’s SAR Response to a Plane Crash
What's involved in a waterborne search for a missing plane? The Coast Guard and its hardworking members have been and continue to be semper paratus, or “always ready.”