In this provocative article, aviation writer Doug Gollan challenges the notion that private jets are wasteful and elitist.
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Yesterday, the very first Boeing 727 airliner made its final flight from Everett’s Paine Field to Seattle’s Boeing Field to become part of the Museum
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LaunchJoe Biden addresses the downing of MH Flight 17 in Ukraine
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Jos Stiglingh: “Flying through a firework show with a DJI Phantom 2 and filming it with a GoPro Hero 3 silver. The quad was not
LaunchThe mission to find MH370 continues: A look at Operation Southern Indian Ocean
A Royal Australian Air Force AP-3C Orion flies past Australian Defence Vessel Ocean Shield on a mission to drop sonar buoys to assist in the acoustic search in support of Operation Southern Indian Ocean. (Photo: LSIS Bradley Darvill/Commonwealth of Australia)
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Flight MH370: Chinese and Australian ships draw blank Objects retrieved from the southern Indian Ocean may not be from missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, the
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Imagine driving down the street at seventy miles an hour with a pair of binoculars and trying to look at every single mailbox… You can’t
LaunchAviation security analyst: Get rid of the on/off switch for aircraft transponders
In the movies, radar screens show incredible detail about everything. In real life, radar is easily confused, doesn’t see small planes, and may have trouble
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Missing Malaysia Airlines plane was hijacked, investigators say Malaysian officials have what they say is “conclusive proof” that Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 was hijacked, which
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