The 727 wins ‘cool points’ for its tri-jet configuration, three engines handsomely placed below a T-tail. The T-tail, with ...

There are plenty of discussion forums, blogs, and websites that can give you more information on the airline industry, but when it comes to sheer volume of information, it's tough to beat ...

Many of the airliners that professional data trackers can no longer account for are believed to have disappeared somewhere in Africa, an enormous land mass with a number of countries that have weak ...

Commercial airliners crashed at a rate of one for every 3.1 million flights worldwide in 2015 – making last year one of the safest on record, industry officials said Monday. The four fatal crashes ...

The Boeing 307 Stratoliner in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020. [Courtesy: Patrick Chovanec] Today in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, I’ll be flying the Boeing 307 Stratoliner, the first commercial ...

According to the Aircraft Fleet Recycling Association (AFRA), anywhere between 400 to 500 cargo and passenger airplanes are recycled annually in America. Of all those giant airliners, little Cessnas, ...

NEW YORK -- A giant United Air Lines DC8 jet and a TWA Super Constellation with a total of 127 persons aboard collided in a snowstorm over New York City today and plummeted to ground 12 miles apart.