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Four Engines vs. Two: The Surprising Mathematical Guarantee of Safety
One would think that an aircraft with additional engines would provide even better performance on normal takeoffs, but the extra engines actually reduces it.
On This Day in Aviation History: December 30th
TAROM Flight 3107 goes off the runway at Otopeni, Romania in 2007, Basque separatists bomb a parking garage at Madrid Airport in Spain in 2006 and the Wright Brother finally cash-in on their flying in 1905 in a failed deal with...
TSA Removes X-Ray Body Scanners From Major Airports
The TSA has been removing X-ray body scanners from airports and replacing them with machines that radiation experts believe are safer.
A Promise Kept: The Eastern DC-7B Story
Joe Kocour’s beloved Eastern DC-7B is once again flying above us, and that is a promise kept.
Ghosts of Octobers Past
Columnist/Pilot Justin Schlechter shares a story of flight crew really earning their paychecks, as the the autumn nights over Alaska bring some challenges in their 747 at the end of a long Pacific hop.