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Salon.com
July 18, 2002
Patrick Smith |
Ask the pilot Do airlines cut down the flow of oxygen in the cabin to save fuel? Can wind shear rip off a plane's wing?   |
Salon.com
December 13, 2001
Katharine Mieszkowski |
A no-fly zone for terrorism By taking pilots out of the loop, can software prevent planes from being used as bombs? |
Salon.com
July 14, 2000
Elliott Neal Hester |
Robbery at 30,000 feet Adventures in real-life airplane stickups. (And you thought hijacking hardly happened anymore.) |
Fast Company
November 2003
Scott Kirsner |
Some Magnificent Men and Their Flying Machines They won't end up in every garage, but a new generation of low-cost "personal" jets could really take off. Tiny Adam Aircraft is racing to be first on the runway. |
Salon.com
September 12, 2001
Phaedra Hise |
Flying with phantoms A pilot waves goodbye to the World Trade Center... |
Popular Mechanics
December 2009
Jeff Wise |
The Tech That Makes New Airplanes and Runways Safer The plane, the runway, the airport, the technology are all examined here |
Salon.com
November 14, 2002
Patrick Smith |
Ask the pilot Was Senator Paul Wellstone's death murder? Patrick Smith looks at the "evidence." |
Popular Mechanics
January 2006
Jim Gorman |
'We don't have any engines' Two joyriding pilots took a jet to its 41,000-ft. ceiling -- and paid for the stunt with their lives. PM investigates the crash of Flight 3701. |
Inc.
November 2003
Robert X. Cringely |
Flight Club Forget the company car. Getting around is faster -- and less expensive than you may think -- in a private plane. |
Salon.com
August 23, 2002
Patrick Smith |
Ask the pilot How hard is it fly an airliner? And why can't I keep my tray table down during takeoff? |
Salon.com
March 8, 2002
P. Smith |
How safe is your airplane? After the crash of American Airlines Flight 587, some pilots requested that all Airbus A300 planes be grounded. But they're still aloft... |
Fast Company
March 2004
Chuck Salter |
A Day in the Life of Work: Plane Crazy Chuck Guerra is a plane mechanic--in the Mojave Desert. He parks, seals, and maintains planes that airlines can't use, keeping them ready for their return, someday, to service. |
Popular Mechanics
July 9, 2008
Jeff Wise |
Mechanic: Obama's Plane Could Have 'Lost Control' in Anomaly Sen. Barack Obama's MD-80 aircraft made a surprise landing on Monday morning due to controllability issues. |
Popular Mechanics
April 2006
Davin Coburn |
Sport Pilot Training Schools A nationwide list of training schools offering sport pilot certification. |
Popular Mechanics
June 11, 2008
Joe Pappalardo |
World's Priciest Stealth Plane Takes First Run to Vertical Landing Needing a boost after a negative report leak, Lockheed Martin tested a prototype of its latest Joint Strike Fighter for the Marines today -- a supersonic F-35 that lands like a chopper and thinks like a pilot. |
Aviation History
M.A. Mogus |
Old Glory's Final Flight In the aftermath of Lindbergh's famous flight, veteran airmail pilots J.D. Hill and Lloyd Bertaud set out for Rome in a Fokker monoplane. |
Popular Mechanics
May 2008
Dan Koeppel |
The Planespotters: Meet the Geeks Who Stalk America's Airports At any given time, at almost any airport in the world, you can find a small group of strangers intently observing and rapidly photographing the comings and goings at airports. |
Salon.com
August 2, 2002
Patrick Smith |
Ask the pilot Can it really get too hot to fly? And what was it like to be in the air on Sept. 11? |
Popular Mechanics
October 2009
David Noland |
Who's Killing the Electric Plane? Even as the federal government jump-starts electric cars with $2.4 billion in research funds, electric airplanes are getting held back. |
Popular Mechanics
July 2006
Jeff Wise |
Flying Off The Drawing Board New technology is poised to transform aviation, finally making Personal Air Vehicles possible. |
Popular Mechanics
November 2006
Arianne Cohen |
Tech Watch: One Wrong Turn How did Comair 5191 wind up taking off from the wrong runway? The country's antiquated system for airport navigation doesn't utilize available safety equipment. |
Aviation History
January 2007 |
Letter From the swashbuckling days of the post-World War I barnstormers to long-distance flying feats such as Charles Lindbergh's iconic solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927, the appeal of flight was on a dizzying climb. |
Aviation History
Sam McGowan |
The Four Horsemen Soon after the introduction of the Lockheed C-130, four U.S. Air Force pilots came up with a great way to demonstrate just how maneuverable and powerful the new transport was. |
BusinessWeek
June 5, 2006
Christopher Palmeri |
Snarl In The Sky Private jet traffic is creating commercial flight delays, safety concerns, and calls for small planes to pay more into the system. |
Salon.com
September 13, 2002
Patrick Smith |
Ask the pilot Can an airliner get a speeding ticket? And, isn't it a bad thing when an engine bursts into flame? |
Popular Mechanics
August 2007
Barbara S. Peterson |
End of Flight Delays? FAA's GPS Fix Could Bust Sky Gridlock The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has been quietly using Alaska as a testbed for technologies that could radically transform the nation's antiquated air traffic control (ATC) system from ground-based radar to space-based GPS. |
Salon.com
June 21, 2002
Patrick Smith |
Airplanes don't get no respect The glamour of the jet age is gone, and that's a shame. It's time to bring back the wonder. |
Fast Company
David Lumb |
In-Air Wi-Fi Apparently Makes Planes Hackable A new report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office for the Federal Aviation Administration describes the fearsome scenario of a hacker breaking into a plane's avionics through in-flight Wi-Fi. |
National Defense
July 2008
Grace V. Jean |
Technologies Ease Burden on Pilots, Maintainers The F-35 Lighting II is being equipped with some of the latest technologies that will automate the duties of both pilots and maintenance crews. |
InsideFlyer
April 2009 |
And the Winner Is ... How could "Airplane!" not win as the funniest travel-related movie? |
Salon.com
June 28, 2002
Patrick Smith |
Ask the pilot Do pilots sweat bullets during wind-whipped landings? And why are those darn windows so small? |
Wired
December 22, 2008
Carl Hoffman |
The Ultimate Flying Machine: Sexy as a Sports Car, Portable as a Jet Ski The Icon A5, designed to thrill and a breeze to fly. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2008
Tekla S. Perry |
Airlines: Got Fuel? Airlines are now putting the minimum amount of fuel in planes necessary to reach their destination, but are they underestimating the amount they need? |
Salon.com
November 13, 2001
Damien Cave |
"It couldn't have come at a worse time" Former Transportation Secretary Sam Skinner explains how the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 will affect the air travel industry... |
Sports Illustrated
April 5, 2000 |
The Ghost Plane: An inside look Interview with Leigh Montville, who wrote a detailed examination of the crash of the plane carrying Payne Stewart. |
Salon.com
May 16, 2000
Elliott Neal Hester |
Eating on the fly Better than anyone, flight attendants know the nightmare that is airline food. |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2011
Philip E. Ross |
When Will We Have Unmanned Commercial Airliners? Unmanned planes dominate the battlefield, yet airliners still have pilot - -and copilots. |
The Motley Fool
October 8, 2010
Rich Smith |
A Bonanza for Boeing Forget the 787. Boeing's 737 is the real growth story. |
Popular Mechanics
March 2008
Joe Pappalardo |
3 Questions for a Real F-35 Test Pilot Test pilot Jon Beesley has ridden in history's cockpit. Having flown in the development phase of every operational U.S. stealth aircraft. |
Salon.com
October 6, 2000
Elliott Neal Hester |
Look out below! Luckless birds, wayward engine pieces and frozen aircraft stowaways are plummeting from the sky... |
Salon.com
November 22, 2002
Patrick Smith |
Ask the pilot The science of weighing airplanes. And, how many things can go wrong with a jet before it's not allowed to fly? |
Popular Mechanics
November 14, 2008
Harry Sawyers |
5 Great Paper Airplanes (with Downloadable Plans!) Here are several planes that appeared at the New Millennium Paper Airplane Contest in New York. |
Salon.com
August 9, 2002
Patrick Smith |
Ask the pilot When airplanes collide, who is responsible? Are we doing enough to prevent such disasters? |
Wired
July 2005
Ron Berler |
Saving the Pentagon's Killer Chopper-Plane 22 years. $16 billion. 30 deaths. The V-22 Osprey has been an R&D nightmare. But now the dream of a tilt-rotor troop transport could finally come true. |
National Defense
November 2004
Harold Kennedy |
Guard Refueling Mission Proves a Bit Too Exciting To see what really goes on in the day-to-day life of the tanker fleet, a National Defense reporter rode along on a recent training mission flown by the 108th Air Refueling Wing of the New Jersey Air National Guard. |
BusinessWeek
June 5, 2006
Christopher Palmeri |
How Safe Are the Chartered Skies? It may seem as if more rented planes are crashing, but in fact they've gotten safer. An expert tells how to choose a charter aircraft outfit. |
National Defense
August 2008
Grace V. Jean |
Predator Ground Stations Need Redesign, Say Pilots The demands for aerial surveillance in Iraq and Afghanistan grow by the day, and that means more Predator unmanned aircraft and pilots are needed. |
Salon.com
September 6, 2002
Patrick Smith |
Ask the pilot What are the 10 worst airline crashes of all time? |
Salon.com
October 25, 2002
Patrick Smith |
Ask the pilot Flying Beech 99's, ogling Gulf Air's stunning stewardesses and other career highlights. Plus: What are the scariest airports? |
| AskMen.com |
Teamwork: Simon Sinek Don't forget to push yourself outside of your comfort zone. "It is that well-oiled machine that makes the pilots and the United States Air Force such a remarkable organization." |
