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A FedEx 727 Retires To Life As College Laboratory
A FedEx Boeing 727-200F concluded its 33-year career last week and joined the faculty of California Baptist University.
Six Cities to Lose AirTran Service as Southwest Integration Accelerates
Southwest Airlines announced on Friday that it will erase Allentown, Lexington, Harrisburg, Sarasota, Huntsville and White Plains from AirTran's route map this August, while the carrier's remaining 22 cities transition to South...
Video: NASA Engineers Face 7 Minutes of Terror During Mars Curiosity Rover Landing
On August 5, computers will orchestrate the most complex landing maneuver ever attempted on another planet using the biggest Mars rover ever built.
March 28th in Aviation History: Aerial Steam Carriage Earns First Patent for a Propeller-Driven Aircraft
William Samuel Henson's Aerial Steam Carriage is granted a patent in 1843, Air France flies its last Caravelle service, Air Afrique is founded, first plane taken down by sabotage, and more...
The Rush To Save A Vintage C-53
In a small town 30 minutes outside of Canton, Ohio sits a vintage C-53. If one airline pilot can't raise the money to save it soon, it will meet the scrapper.