Drivers in Taiwan with cameras mounted on their car dashboards captured the dramatic footage of TransAsia flight GE235 crashing into a river near the capital of Taipei earlier today.
Aircraft Owners and Pilot's Association, the largest organization advocating for General Aviation (essentially all flying except airlines) held an aviation summit in Ft. Worth this past weekend. I was there! I had the opportunity to fly a 1941 Douglas C47 and took advantage of it. A huge bucket list item!
Wow, I thought movie theaters where bad. This list will really make you think again about touching anything -- especially when you're flying 30,000 feet in the air.
Well this certainly isn't your ordinary weekend project. Air traffic controller and private pilot James Price has built a flight simulator out of the nose of a 1969 Boeing 737 in his Pleasanton garage.
Few would honestly describe air travel as a pleasant experience, but one flight attendant made a Southwest Airlines flight something to remember by dropping some ‘phat’ rhymes during the announcements.
Last weekend, an Emirates Airbus 380 was struck by a jagged bolt of lightning as it began its descent into London's Heathrow Airport. Luckily, none of the passengers aboard were harmed, and the plane made it safely to the ground.
Believe it or not, airplanes generally sustain a couple of lightning strikes per year, and are designed so that their bodies act as a conductor, allowing the lightning t
Even as a child, you probably never imagined a model plane system as comprehensive as the Miniatur Wunderland railway in Hamburg, Germany.
After 6 years of construction, the "Knuffington Airport" now boasts 200,000 mini people, 6 miles of track, computer-controlled airplanes that actually fly and a $5 million bill.