For example, Air Canada 143 ran out of fuel at 41,000 feet but was still able to land safely at an old air force base ... allowing the airline to fly a smaller plane between smaller destinations.

Airlines including British Airways and Virgin Atlantic continue to fly a matter of miles from the GPS-jammed Russian region where an ... David Mumford of OpsGroup, an organisation for pilots and air ...

When the air is thinner, planes can fly faster and more efficiently, using less fuel to maintain the speed required to develop lift. We spoke to former airline pilot Dan Bubb, now a professor at ...

The old advice for dealing with thunderstorms in small GA aircraft still applies. See and avoid. Fly under the ceiling and avoid the rain shafts. Fly around them when they are not embedded in ...

Contemporary airliners all still follow the same old “tube and wing” design ... Blended wing aircraft are basically flying wings, where the cargo-carrying section of aircraft is shorter ...

Instead of the Boeing 787s, Qantas leased two Airbus A330s from Finnair, which fly under the Scandinavian airlines livery and with its crew. Engineers complain that Qantas’ old fleet is becoming ...