while others are interested in miles & points becausethey love airplanes. I know there are plenty of people who are very frequent flyers but can barely tell the difference between an Airbus A380 and Boeing 747.
Although many Ku-Band providers purchase bandwidth from various satellite owners, Viasat (a provider of Ka-Band) owns its own 4 satellites, with more planned for launch in the coming years. Additional satellites will increase coverage throughout the world, so this should be a real game-changer ...
Flying with a baby can be both exciting and challenging. As a mother who has navigated the skies with my little one many, many times (over 100 while he is still a ‘lap infant’), I understand all too well the importance of finding ways to make the journey smoother. One of the lifes...
Even though 125 people were killed in the Pentagon on September 11th, there was something miraculous and somewhat fortunate about that day. Although the commandeered Boeing 757 obliterated the first and part of the building's second floor, the third, fourth and fifth floors remained, suspended in...
KYIV, Ukraine — President Joe Biden’s motorcade slipped out of the White House around 3:30 a.m. Sunday. No big, flashy Air Force One for this trip — the president vanished into the darkness on an Air Force C-32, a modified Boeing 757 normally used for domestic trip...
Today, UPS employs 3,000 pilots and has a total fleet of 500 aircraft: About half are company-owned, while the rest are chartered. UPS pilots operate Boeing 747, 757, and 767 jets, along with Airbus A300 and McDonnell Douglas MD-11 aircraft. In addition to Lou...
“These are airplanes with three engines. I’m mostly excited by the wide-bodied ones such as the McDonnell Douglas DC-10, the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar and the Boeing MD-11.” Ilyushin Il-62 — Entering commercial service in 1967, the Ilyushin Il-62 was the Soviet Union's first long-...
While awaiting the emergence of affordable SAF, improvements in aircraft fuel efficiency offer the most effective current path to lower airline emissions. For example, the Airbus A320, which began service in the late 1980s, emits 46% less CO2 than a Boeing 727-200, a model that retired from...
Many of the popular airliners in service worldwide are built by Airbus and Boeing, but telling these manufacturers and models apart can be difficult. Included on this page is a quick-and-easy, side-by-side identification of the differences between the common Boeing and Airbus jet airliners of...
“These are airplanes with three engines. I’m mostly excited by the wide-bodied ones such as the McDonnell Douglas DC-10, the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar and the Boeing MD-11.” Ilyushin Il-62 — Entering commercial service in 1967, the Ilyushin Il-62 was the Soviet Union's first long-...