The Allegiant plane with 144 passengers landed safely last Thursday at Hector International Airport in Fargo, North Dakota.

In the ’30s, Ettore Bugatti redirected a large slice of his empire’s engineering might towards the design of a ground-breaking air racer. Several years ago, the massive undertaking of building a full-scale replica of the Model 100 started in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and is now nearing completion with its maiden flight planned for this year. By Alan Franklin.

This airline seating arrangement could be a nice alternative to the middle seat or a new form of hell.

If you take a look at a list of the fastest airplanes to ever grace the skies, many of them, for whatever reason, were primarily active in the 1960s. That may change soon enough. Military.com is reporting that the U.S. Air Force is looking to partner up and develop a hypersonic jet capable of traveling at five times the speed of sound, otherwise known as Mach 5. By way of contrast, the famed Concorde aircraft traveled at Mach 2.04.

A gun with wings with guns on it!

Was the Concorde a triumph of modern engineering, a metaphor for misplaced 20th-century values, or both? By Dara Bramson.

The aircraft over the course of the journey set records for longest solo flight and most time in a solar-powered flight.

Innovation could lead to a flier in 2022-24.

Airlines feel the pressure to keep us constantly entertained while we’re up in the air. Is wi-fi about to change how we keep entertained above the clouds?

There are some things you just don’t do. Like feed chocolate to a dog. Or prank call your grandma. Or fuck with multi-billion dollar airline corporations. Or do you? Aktarer Zaman did. Fuck with multi-billion dollar airline corporations, that is. Zaman founded Skiplagged — a site that helps people travel on the cheap by identifying …

The era of free checked suitcases on JetBlue has come to an end.

“Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot” by Mark Vanhoenacker. It is a memoir by a Boeing 747 first officer, one that anyone who still retains a vestige of romanticism about flying should read. Much of the book is a lyrical take on the joy of working above the clouds. But it also has many interesting insights into the technicalities of flying a jumbo jet.

She wants to be a flight attendant when she grows up.

Boeing Co is exploring a potential market of over 1,000 aircraft in a niche between its single-aisle 737 and wide-body 787, but has not decided whether to invest in a new jetliner, its sales chief said on Sunday.

The pilot, 47, seated the 28-year-old attendant in the co- pilot’s chair and snapped a selfie after the plane had climbed to 10,000 feet

Just how steeply can a plane climb off the runway? Steeper than you think, writes Stephen Dowling.

Boeing just announced plans to make their bathrooms smaller so they can fit more seats on the plane! So if you're claustrophobic, you might want to hold it. Boeing is shrinking the toilet area on the 777-300ER models to make them more marketable to airlines who will want extra seats on the plane, but passengers, would probably rather the extra leg room.

The Transportation Security Administration, which repeatedly screens 2 million airport workers, didn't identify 73 workers potentially associated with terrorism, according to a watchdog report Monday. The

Breakthrough for 'self-healing technology'

Airport security has been in the news a lot lately. We're all told to be on guard for anything suspicious.