What Will Happen When The World’s Airlines Run Out Of Flight Numbers?
It is apparently ironical that despite the formualtor of the theory of infinity claiming that the essence of mathematics lay […]
Civil Aviation
What is a Ground Stop At An Airport?
When smoke from Canada’s wildfires in 2023 affected the visibility of US airspace, operations at laGuardia Airport came to a
What is a deadhead pilot and what are the rules for them?
Any person who has watched the movie “Catch Me If You Can” (or read the book of the same title)
How Airlines Are Named: Different approaches
How do we make sense of Bark Air, the airline which is “the world’s first air travel experience designed specifically
What Was Airfone & Why Did It Become Obsolete?
Airfone’s history is one where a potentially groundbreaking air-ground radiotelephone that could have revolutionized in-flight communication gets supplanted by something
How Common & Dangerous Are Bird Strikes In US Aviation?
On January 15th, 2009, when a U.S Airline plane, Airbus A320-214 scheduled to take off from New York City to
Aviation Nose Art: History, Meaning, and Iconic Designs
While explaining the difference between a piece of fine art and science, Niel Degrasse Tyson, a great expositor of black
What Is A Redress Number?
9/11, the horrific incident that issued a nationwide groundstop (perhaps the first and the only one in history) led to
An Unlikely Hobby: Did You Know Multiple Avgeeks Have Collected Several Thousand Airsickness Bags?
Aviation is rife with some unique vocabulary: ETOPS (Extended-range Twin-engine Operations Performance Standards) if often jocularly, colloquially referred to as
Top 5: Facts About The Consolidated B-24 Liberator Heavy Bomber
A production number of 18,400 (between 1940 and 1945 across several variants) might not be enough to ensure that the