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While fighter planes usually receive the most praise and accolades for their part in World War II victories, bombers played an equally crucial role. The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber started production well before the…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Researchers have developed a new way to accurately count and objectively analyze close encounters between…

Nightmare summer travel is upon us as vacation season coincides with high temperatures and severe weather capable of disrupting flights. By Wednesday of this week, FlightAware, a site that follows air traffic around the world, had tallied…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The aviation industry is transforming thanks to the entrepreneurial spirit of individuals and companies launching their own MRO services in Europe. These…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain On May 11, 2020, a deadly threat flew from Los Angeles to New York City in under nine minutes. It was a…

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An Air India Boeing 777 plane. | Photo Credit: Reuters India will require approximately 2,210 new airplanes over the next two decades of which 1,983 units will be for single-aisle jets, while 227 units or 10% of new airplane deliveries…

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The 1,574th and final 747, which rolled off Boeing’s production line in Everett, Washington, on January 31, is destined for a life shipping goods around the world on behalf of the New York–based cargo company Atlas Air. It’s an unremarkable…

Perfectly level flying is the supreme challenge of the scale-model pilot Sky Odyssey was a community recommendation from way, way back. Since then, I’ve had it earmarked, and I’m not sure why it’s taken me so long to get around to it. It…