Video: Boeing 747-8 Extreme Braking Test
How does Boeing test the braking limits on the largest aircraft they've ever built? File the brake pads down to the rivets, load up the plane to nearly a million pounds, gun the engines to 200 mph, then mash the brakes as hard ...
On This Day in Aviation History: May 5th
Cinco de Mayo is a busy day in aviation: Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space, Eastern Flight 855 narrowly averts near Miami, two unrelated hijackings on the same day in 1972, the merger of Air France with KLM and m...
Korean Air Orders Five Airbus A330s and Two Boeing 777s
Korean Air has announced an order for five new Airbus A330-200s along with two additional Boeing 777-300ERs, with a total value of $1.58 billion at list prices.
Mastering Photoshop: Curve Balls and a Level Playing Field
Two aspects of Photoshop that are so necessary yet so misunderstood are the curves and levels controls. Columnist Manny Gonzalez goes through them both step by to help get the most out of our digital SLR images.
Body Recovered from Submerged Air France Flight 447 Wreckage
Search teams were able to recover the body of one of the 228 victims that died during Air France flight 447, which crashed in the Atlantic Ocean in 2009 during a scheduled flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, French authorities...