Last year, a F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter jet, crashed off the airfield at the Albuquerque International Sunport in New Mexico after it had stopped at Kirtland Air Force Base for refueling. One important thing to note is that the F-35B Lightning II falls in the list of the United States Marine Corps (USMC)’s...

On the outside, it might seem that Boeing produced planes that have names that start and end with 7: the 747 is known as the Queen of the Skies, the 787 is the aerospace giant’s Dreamliner, the 737 is the model used by the budget airline that helped aviation coin the term “Southwest Effect, just...

Much in line with how Boeing planes start and end with the number seven, most of Airbus’ planes start with the letter A followed by the number 3. Perhaps the most iconic of Airbus A3xx series is the double-decker airliner that is the Airbus A380, which is the biggest passenger aircraft to have ever been...

The United States of America tops the list of the nation with the highest number of fatal civil airliner accidents from 1945 until now – the nation has seen 870 accidents and 10846 fatalities (133 are ground fatalities). Next in line is Russia, the nation with which the United States of America was at loggerheads...

Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) has a rather delightful program called PUPs, or Pets Unstressing Passengers. There were around 93 dogs in this airport to “spread the love at LAX’s gate areas at each terminal’s departures levels“. But these PUPs don’t board the flight. Bark Air’s introduction marked the first airline dedicated solely to the...

Concorde was an aircraft that had come after fourteen years of collaboration between France and Britain. It was sleek, agile, and had cruised at greater than Mach 2, allowing it to cross the pond in less than two hours. This aircraft saw passenger operations as far back as 1976, prompting to ask if one could...

Neil Armstrong’s landing on the moon prompted an apercu that is rather indelible (and perhaps wrongly quoted): “A Small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”. , the nuances change]. The Apollo 11 crew that landed alongside Neil unveiled an engraved plaque bearing a lesser-known phrase: “We came in peace...

When the former Air France chairman, Jean-Cyril Spinetta, said, “Concorde will never really stop flying because she will live on in people’s imagination”, it encapsulated everyone’s feelings. Apart from hardcore environmentalists who have maintained that an aviation world full of Concordes would simply ruin the planet (for the aircraft was a gas guzzler)...

One of the most iconic pictures in all of space science and aviation is the photograph of Antonov An-225, one of the biggest aircraft ever constructed, taking the Buran space shuttle into the skies. One can also think of the photograph of the first untethered spacewalk. When the first American who flew to space compared...