Women in Aviation: 75 Years After Amelia Earhart's Pacific Flight
Today marks the 75th anniversary of Amelia Earhart’s successful flight from Honolulu to Oakland, California.She was the first woman to fly solo across the Pacific. To help update the history of women...
View ArticleModernizing the Airplane: GPS to Replace Radar
The Senate passed a $34.5 billion bill on Monday that will bring in GPS technology to replace radar. This is an attempt to help modernize our country’s dated air traffic control system. Science and...
View ArticleFeds Focus on Aviation, but Terror Threats More Likely on Subways
The Department of Homeland Security recently announced changes in its approach to passenger screenings at airports, in an effort to increase security after the failed bomb plot on Christmas Day....
View ArticleBoeing To Close Wichita Facility
Wichita, Kansas has been known as the "Air Capitol of the World" since the 1920s. Building aircrafts for the army and for the jet-set, the city is to airplanes what Detroit is to cars. But, after...
View ArticleThe Anniversary of Amelia Earhart's Disappearance
It's one of the most sacred stories in the canon of unsolved American mysteries. In July of 1937, Amelia Earhart was on the tail end of her famous journey around the world. From her starting point in...
View ArticleWhen the Skies Are Too Dangerous to Fly
Following a rocket attack that landed only a mile from Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv yesterday, the Federal Aviation Administration announced that no U.S. flights would be allowed to fly to Israel for...
View ArticleOne Zero Charlie
Michael Stanard has been living a kind of double life. He runs a graphic design firm and a small airport — both on the same airstrip in rural Illinois. Hal Humphreys visited the designer/aviation...
View ArticleToday in History: Amelia Earhart
On June 18, 1928, Amelia Earhart completes the flight that made her the first woman to successfully fly across the Atlantic Ocean. This clip is a radio broadcast “A Woman’s Place in Science” from...
View ArticleTN Moving Stories
Five flights had tarmac delays of more than three hours in May, the first full month with new, steep federal fines. (USA Today)California high-speed rail planners defend ridership estimates, as...
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Airlines Face Pressure to Disclose Fees
(Washington, DC - Todd Zwillich) Do you know exactly how much an airplane ticket is costing you?The answer for millions of travelers is, ‘probably not,’ at least not until the last minute, when it’s...
View ArticleStewart Airport Readies for International Passengers
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is taking steps to attract more international passengers to Stewart Airport in the Hudson Valley.The Port Authority acquired the airport three years ago...
View ArticleThe Unfriendly Skies
Barbara Peterson, Conde Nast Traveler’s Senior Aviation Correspondent, discusses the trend of air traffic controllers falling asleep, problems with plane maintenance and planes losing their cabin...
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Rep. Mica Goes After TSA on Private Security Screeners
(Todd Zwillich -- Washington, D.C.) House Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Rep. John Mica (R-Fl.) took a swing at the Obama Administration Friday for refusing to privatize security screening...
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FAA Shutdown Stops Research at Florida Aviation School
Entrance to Embry Riddle (photo by Aerojimmy via Wikimedia Commons)(Orlando -- WMFE) The Federal Aviation Administration’s partial shutdown is impacting projects beyond just airports. Embry Riddle...
View ArticleJennefer Ludwigsen: Big Jim and Smokey Joe
EXPLICIT CONTENT (strong language): A Hollywood waitress, a former bomber pilot, and a retired railroad engineer from the Midwest take the trip of a lifetime.
View ArticleFeds to Probe Helicopter's Emergency Landing in Hudson River
The Federal Aviation Administration has begun gathering information into a helicopter that was forced to make an emergency landing in the Hudson River on Sunday. A spokesperson for the The National...
View ArticlePlane Scare as Landing Gear Malfunctions on LGA Runway
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey says it appears the front wheel popped off after a Southwest Airlines jet landed at LaGuardia Airport Monday shortly before 6:00 p.m. Officials say the...
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Nose Gear Collapse Under Review in Southwest Airlines Rough-Landing
The Nation Transportation Safety Board is reviewing the data and cockpit voice recorder of Southwest Flight 345 to determine why the front landing gear collapsed upon landing Monday night. The "nose...
View ArticleAsk The Pilot: Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
It's been a week since Flight 370 disappeared en route to Beijing. Patrick Smith, an airline pilot who blogs at AskThePilot.com, and author of Cockpit Confidential: Everything You Need to Know About...
View ArticleUS and Chinese warplanes risk a mid-air collision — and an international...
A Chinese fighter came "within 20 feet" of a US Navy surveillance plane last week in an incident Beijing is denying even took place. But the US says it has photos of the incident, which is just the...
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