Concorde breaks the sound barrier, West Coast Airlines Flight 956 becomes the first fatal DC-9 crash, NASA is born, and the F-86 and XP-59 take their first flights.
In today's daily digest, great snaps of the Aeroflot A330 in SkyTeam colors, Mexicana joins one world, a funny complaint letter to Richard Branson, a Kingfisher ATR-72 overruns a runway, United suspends a drunken pilot and more.
Passenger and freight air traffic grew substantially in 2010 as positive economic prospects worldwide overshadowed the depressed levels of 2009 caused by the global financial crisis, according to United Nations report.
United’s 747SP “Friendship One” sets an around-the-world record, the crashes of Kenya Airlines 431, Pan Am 806, and disappearances of a Varig 707F and a British Tudor, and more...