Photo: Jun Xu (Getty Images) An aircraft’s tires are usually an afterthought for most airline passengers. Despite only being on the ground for brief periods of time during most flights, planes still use their tires a great deal. Incredibly, aircraft tires rarely blow out but have relatively short lifespans. Ride Along in the 2024 Corvette … Read more
President John F. Kennedy, in June 1963, walked out to a podium at Falcon Stadium, the football stadium at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. While addressing the graduating class of cadets, he announced that the United States would embark on the challenge of constructing the world’s first supersonic commercial airliner. It was the … Read more
Photo: National Transportation Safety Board (AP) The National Transportation Safety Board released its preliminary report on how a door plug blew out of a Boeing 737 Max 9 at 16,000 feet over Portland, Oregon last month. The findings are as bad as expected with the report noting that the four bolts intended to hold the … Read more
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse for the Boeing 737 Max, a new problem has been found in production. Now, Boeing has to rework 50 undelivered jets before they can take to the sky. Good lord. Ryan Blaney On The Bond Between Driver And Spotter It started with a memo from Stan … Read more
Airlines are resuming flights with the troubled Boeing Max 9 planes which were all grounded following the door panel blow-out incident on Jan. 5, but aviation experts say that these planes still have significant and potentially dangerous quality-control issues. I Need A Manual Car Thats Fun And Powerful | WCSYB? Boeing Max 8 jets first … Read more
Photo: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland (Getty Images) The door plug blow-out on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 has rightly provoked an intense outburst of public scrutiny regarding the Boeing 737 Max 9. Initial findings have led federal regulators to believe that design and quality control issues at Boeing and its supplier Spirit AeroSystems caused the dramatic incident. But … Read more
A door plug that blew out of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282Photo: National Transportation Safety Board (AP) When a door plug blew out from an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 just minutes after taking off from Portland, Oregon, it raised several questions about the troubled airliner. Will airlines still be allowed to fly Boeing 737 … Read more
Photo: Watchara Phomicinda/MediaNews Group/The Press-Enterprise (Getty Images) The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) has announced that only 1.2 percent of the 16.3 million flights scheduled last year were canceled, the lowest flight cancellation rate in at least a decade. Cancellations were nearly cut in half compared to 2022, when the rate was 2.3 percent. The … Read more
Photo: Elizabeth Le (AP) Passengers on an Alaska Airlines flight leaving Portland, Oregon endured a harrowing ordeal when a door plug blew out the side on the flight’s Boeing 737 Max 9 just minutes after takeoff. The massive hole in the fuselage’s side at 16,000 feet caused the cabin to depressurize, the lights to flicker … Read more
Supersonic airliners never became as common as airlines and government officials hoped.Photo: Victor Drees/Daily Express/Hulton Archive (Getty Images) When supersonic flight was set to transform passenger air travel in the late 1960s, Miami-Dade County had grand ambitions of becoming the center of commercial aviation’s fledgling intercontinental network. Local government wanted to construct the world’s largest … Read more