MAXjet Airways Ceases Operations
Early this morning, Dulles, Virginia-based MAXJet Airways announced they were entering Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and ceasing operations.
Rick Ross Health Scare Forces Emergency Landing, LaHood to Quit DOT and More: Final Call
Rapper Rick Ross passes out on a Delta flight, the price of an Emirates A380 is revealed, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is quitting, and more...
August 9th in Aviation History: Steven Slater Slides to Stardom
The US drops an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, a LANSA Lockheed Electra crashes in Peru, Steven Slater flips out on a JetBlue flight, and more...
Boeing 707 Prototype Makes First Test Flight, First USSR-US Service Takes Off: July 15 in Aviation History
1916: A timber merchant named William E. Boeing and a US Navy engineer named George Conrad Westervelt form a new aircraft company called the Pacific Aero Products Company. A year later it would be renamed Boeing Airplane Compan...
October 17th in Aviation History
British Airways and Air France win their suit to allow Concorde to serve New York and the first US Navy aircraft carrier takeoff.