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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Qatar Airways: 5 Special Liveries Used By The Middle Eastern Airline

Qatar Airways(QR), referred to an ME3 (as it is one of the three big airlines from the Middle East), operates...
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What Are The Oldest Active Aircraft In Qatar Airways’ Fleet?

Qatar Airways, which was the first airline in the world to be “certified to the industry standard for the prevention...
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Where Does Your Checked Bag Go After Check-In?

Last month, a passenger traveling from Delhi Airport to Hyderabad in IndiGo Airlines – the largest carrier in India –...
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