Air Berlin Testing Satellite-Aided Noise Abatement Procedures for Approaches to Frankfurt
An Air Berlin 737-700 will carry out 13 different approaches at Braunschweig with the help of the Global Positioning and Landing System on Monday while noise measurements are recorded on the ground.
Researching Weather and Climate Change at 35,000ft
Over 40 years ago, airliners started being used to collect high altitude air samples for climate research. Today that research continues, and has been expanded to improve weather forecasting and also better understand the effec...
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 ...
Salmon Thirty Salmon Returns to Alaska Airlines Fleet This Fall
Following a brief hiatus, this July Alaska Airlines will once again be able to claim the world's largest flying salmon, and it'll be even bigger than the last one.
Touch N’ Go: Most Epic Safety Video Ever Made, Vintage Pan Am + More #AvGeek Goodness!
(Touch N’ Go is a collection of our favorite AvGeek news, pictures, videos, tweets & more from the day.) AvNews: ✈ Air New Zealand celebrates the third & final film in The Hobbit Trilogy with “The Mos...