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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 September 2007 David Noland |
10 Plane Crashes That Changed Aviation Here are eight crashes and two emergency landings whose influence is felt -- for the good -- each time you step on a plane. |
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... |
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... |
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. |
Salon.com July 15, 2000 Phaedra Hise |
JFK Jr.'s fatal mistakes The final report on Kennedy's crash reveals a series of decisions that led him on a spiral crash course one year ago. |
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 February 3, 2005 |
9/11: Debunking The Myths We examine the evidence and consults the experts to refute the most persistent conspiracy theories of September 11. |
Popular Mechanics December 2009 Jeff Wise |
How Plane Crash Forensics Lead to Safer Aviation After each plane crash, investigators study the wreckage, analyze flight data and examine clues regarding flight conditions. Once they have determined a cause, they often help create recommendations that prevent the problem from recurring. |
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. |
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. |
Outside September 2005 Brad Wetzler |
Get Your Props Widen the horizons of adventure by taking the controls and becoming a pilot |
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 |
Popular Mechanics June 4, 2009 Mark Huber |
Diving Robots Could Recover Air France 447's Black Box After officials pinpointed the location of Air France's Airbus A330 crash site, they turned to the difficult task of recovering the black boxes |
Popular Mechanics December 10, 2008 Michael Milstein |
Is a Controversial Technology to Blame for the F-18 Crash? The F/A-18D Hornet that slammed into a residential neighborhood in San Diego Monday came from the first family of fighter jets with full fly-by-wire technology. |
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 July 18, 2007 David Noland |
Safest Seat on a Plane: PM Investigates How to Survive a Crash In the wake of nearly 200 passenger deaths in a Brazilian airliner accident, we take an exclusive look at 36 years' worth of NTSB reports and seating charts to determine the best way to live through a disaster in the sky. |
Aviation History January 12, 2005 Gerald A. Schiller |
Squadron of Death: Flying and Dying for Hollywood A daring group of former barnstormers introduced American film fans to flying thrills and chills in the 1920s. |
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. |
IEEE Spectrum August 2010 Krishna M. Kavi |
Beyond the Black Box Instead of storing flight data on board, aircraft could easily send the information in real time to the ground |
Salon.com August 9, 2002 Patrick Smith |
Ask the pilot When airplanes collide, who is responsible? Are we doing enough to prevent such disasters? |
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? |
Sports Central August 4, 2005 Kevin Beane |
Remembering the Fallen in Sports Ten of the worst aviation disasters involving sports teams. |
Salon.com September 6, 2002 Patrick Smith |
Ask the pilot What are the 10 worst airline crashes of all time? |
Aviation History September 2005 David H. Grover |
Harrowing 1927 California to Hawaii Flight The accomplishments of two pioneering civilians -- Emory Bronte and Ernie Smith -- who piloted a Travel Air across the Pacific in 1927 have been largely overlooked. |
Salon.com November 16, 2001 P. Smith |
Turbulence can kill Investigators are suggesting that Flight 587 may have become fatally entwined in the jet wake of another plane. Stranger things have happened... |
Popular Mechanics June 26, 2009 Mark Huber |
Air France 447: New Questions About Instruments, Composite Tail The flight computers and the crew may have been able to inadvertently fly the aircraft beyond its structural design limits, triggering an in-flight break-up. |
Salon.com July 31, 2000 Elliott Neal Hester |
Coping after the Concorde disaster Consoling odds: Your chances of dying in a domestic plane crash are still less than one in a million. |
AskMen.com Steve Richer |
How To: Get A Private Pilot's License We are at a point now where human flight is open to just about everyone, even the likes of flyboys Tom Cruise and John Travolta. Accordingly, it's become painless for someone to get their private pilot's license. |
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? |
Popular Mechanics August 2007 Jeff Wise |
Fly Your Own Plane for $30,000: Backyard Aircraft Flight Test Two-seaters represent the most affordable way for recreational pilots to get airborne and take a friend along. To tap into this market, plane makers have come up with cool machines that cost about the same as a base-model SUV. |
Popular Mechanics January 14, 2009 Davin Coburn |
Marcus Schrenker's Fall From Grace: How this Financial Adviser (Almost) Pulled off a Daring Getaway Late Tuesday night, he was apprehended at a KOA campground in Chattahoochee, Fla. |
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? |
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 July 14, 2000 Elliott Neal Hester |
Robbery at 30,000 feet Adventures in real-life airplane stickups. (And you thought hijacking hardly happened anymore.) |
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. |
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... |
IEEE Spectrum February 2008 Susan Karlin |
James Brown: Above & Beyond This experimental test pilots are aviators trained in engineering and can convey problems and improvements for plane development. |
Salon.com September 12, 2001 Phaedra Hise |
Flying with phantoms A pilot waves goodbye to the World Trade Center... |
National Defense February 2008 David A. Deptula |
Unmanned Aircraft Not Just for Combat The speed with which unmanned aircraft capabilities have advanced in recent years has been astonishing. |
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. |
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 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? |
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 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? |
Fast Company September 2003 Alison Overholt |
What's Up With Those Orange Batons? One airport mystery explained. |
Aviation History July 2005 H. Paul Brehm |
Navy Helldivers Strike Hyuga A raid on the Japanese battleship-carrier Hyuga was an arduous task for fliers of Air Group 87 from USS Ticonderoga. |
IEEE Spectrum January 2008 Willie D Jones |
Dutch Start-up Hopes to Spark Takeoff of Flying Car Market Engineers at Spark Design Engineering have created a three-wheeled personal air and land vehicle that takes off like a plane and lands like a helicopter. |
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. |