Today in Aviation History: October 28th
The Cuban Missile Crisis comes to an end, the Airbus A300 flies for the first time, an Air China pilot hijacks his own plane, a Continental 757 lands on a taxiway, and more...
On This Day in Aviation History: February 2nd
First flight of the F-16, JAL begins its first international route, PEOPLExpress folds, a Cebu Pacific flight crashes in the Philippines and more...
A 727? Again?
Take a stroll down memory lane with us as we remember a time when a now classic airliner was once so common that it was boring.
Bombardier CSeries Takes Off For The First Time
On Monday morning in Mirabel, just outside of Montreal, the Bombardier CSeries CS100 FTV-1 took to the skies for the first time. Just before 10am local time, the clean-sheet narrowbody started its roll down runway 06, taking of...
Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better! A Pilot’s Perspective of the B747-8F
In the Broadway Musical “Annie Get Your Gun”, Annie Oakley bellows in the final scene “Anything you can do, I can do better! I can do anything better than you!” If airplanes could talk, I’m pretty sure that Boeing’s...