Civil Aviation

Although the Soviet Union was mired in swashbuckling bureaucracy before its dissolution into Russia, there were a lot of Engineering...

Spring Airlines, a Chinese budget carrier, once offered an airfare of merely 13 cents (1 Yuan) for flights between Shanghai...

When the Antonov An-225 was destroyed in 2022 amidst the first flush of the Ukraine-Russia War, it was a devastating...

Despite aviation seeing a slight surge in accidents in the past couple of years (such as the crash of Air...

Until the 1930s, passenger chairs on an aircraft used to be wicker chairs. This was a time when flying was...

Modern aircraft engines are strong, efficient, and can even propel aircraft to a speed greater than that of sound. The...

In 1977, a tragic collision between two Boeing 747 jets (one operated by KLM and the other by Pan Am)...

A bird strike is one of the most dangerous threats in aviation. Though precautions such as projecting dead birds (at the...

Sending rockets into space is expensive. The North American X-15, the hypersonic research program that was the first airplane to...