Next time you’re eating a sandwich on your holiday flight, pause to think about something. The aircraft type you are flying ...

Early long-range jet airliners transformed global travel. Explore how the 707, DC-8, VC10, and Il-62 reshaped ...

The age of piston-engine air travel still exists today, but its golden era was the 1920s to 1950s. A vast, exciting world opened to air tourists in this stylish, dashing age of glamour and more than a ...

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 ...

For most people, private jets are typically smaller planes, with the largest purpose-built models, like the Bombardier Global 7500/8000, often sitting fewer than 20 passengers. If you need a larger ...

Helicopter airliners could save us time and lessen the need for building expensive airports. So why don’t we have them? Airports are expensive things to build. And they require vast amounts of space, ...