The Boeing 737 is a common medium passenger jet used by many budget airlines. See more flight pictures. ©iStockphoto.com/Peter Hulse When air travel debuted in the early 20th century, it was both rare and expensive. Air travel was restricted to the very wealthy, and each trip was ...
The tragic Jeju Air crash in Muan, South Korea, has sent shockwaves through the aviation world. As reported by The Hindu, a Boeing 737-800 with 181 people on board veered off the runway and crashed, leaving 179 dead and only two survivors. Early investigations, covered by Indian Express,...
The former Boeing flight controls engineer who worked on the MAX’s certification on behalf of the FAA said that whether a system on a jet can rely on one sensor input, or must have two, is driven by the failure classification in the system safety...
That last point isn’t a given. There have been cases where pieces of deorbited craft have landed on the ground, such as with the Skylab space station, which fell from orbit in 1979, pieces of whichlanded in Australia. Large chunks of Skylab, like this oxygen tank, crashed into the Au...
Many Army officers benefitted from overseeing the camps, not otherwise having the opportunity to supervise large groups of personnel in the period between the world wars. Also in 1933, Adolf Hitler rose to power in Germany. [Pictured: Members of the Civilian Conservation Corps in the Pacific ...
As part of this effort, 1935 also marks the unveiling by the Boeing Airplane Co. of the Model 299, a long-range, four-engine heavy bomber that would transform air battles that was eventually coined the “B-17 Flying Fortress.” [Pictured: Machine-gun crew aboard the USS Ranger, Oct. 8...
As part of this effort, 1935 also marks the unveiling by the Boeing Airplane Co. of the Model 299, a long-range, four-engine heavy bomber that would transform air battles that was eventually coined the “B-17 Flying Fortress.” [Pictured: Machine-gun crew aboard the USS Ranger, Oct. 8...
The mid-air collision over India between a Kazakhstan Airlines Ilyushin Il-76TD and a Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 was partly blamed on the poor language skills of the Kazak pilots. They were relying on the English of their flight engineer who did not have access to the flight instrument...