On This Day in Aviation History: January 7th
China resumes flights to and from the US in 1981, Hubert Latham sets a new altitude record, speed records in American coast-to-coast and Australia-New Zealand, the first flight over the English Channel takes place in a balloon ...
Piloticians
Members of government love to speak up when it comes the airline industry, and Senator Charles Schumer has perhaps spoken the loudest.
Seattle Museum of Flight Receives Boeing Dreamliner ZA003
More than 6000 people watched as the museum became the first in the world to receive and showcase Boeing's newest state-of-the-art aircraft.
October 6th in Aviation History
Crashes of Cubana Flight 455 in Barbados and United airlines Flight 409 in Wyoming, as well as an aircraft endurance record set in 1992 and the first passenger flight over an hour.
On This Day in Aviation History: September 17th
NASA unveils the Space Shuttle Enterprise, East African Airways begins Nairobi-London service, maiden flight of the X-15 rocket plane, first fatality on a powered airplane, and more...