Concorde at 50: Faster Than A Speeding Bullet
Concorde, which made its first flight 50 years ago on March 2, 1969, was a magnificent creature of the skies, a supersonic transport with roots in the 1950s and 1960s “boom” of aviation innovation. But what gave the Mach 2 marvel the ability to fly faster and farther than many military fighter jets?
Too Big to Succeed: Why the Airbus A380 is Dead
The mega-jet is dead. In a move that surprised no one in the industry, Airbus announced that its A380 line in Toulouse will close in 2021, once the final aircraft on order has been delivered.
Is Boeing or Airbus Better? We Asked an Airline Pilot.
What does a professional, highly experienced pilot think of the planes? "I love both aircraft for different reasons. Where one comes up short, the other one excels,” said Captain Rory Kay.
Sound Tube: The Surprising History of Airline Headsets
In the days before cheap, electronic headsets, AVID Products designers took inspiration from a medical stethoscope and created the pneumatic headset.
Journey to the Cloud
Can the IFE content delivery supply chain be made more efficient by breaking it free of its assembly-line routine and moving it entirely to a cloud computing platform?
Airbus Helicopters to propose H135 for U.S. Navy AHTS
Airbus is planning to submit a proposal to fulfill the U.S. Navy’s Advanced Helicopter Training System (AHTS) with a platform based on its H135 twin.