They skip long security lines at the airport and depart on flexible schedules. However, are they actually faster in the air ...

A Starship explosion sends shockwaves literally and logistically into nearby airspace, forcing commercial airliners into ...

A Russian firm is working on an inflight connectivity system for the MC-21, Superjet and Tu-214 airliners based on LEO ...

The First Jet Airliners Had Four Engines If you look at the first popular jet airliners, like the Boeing 707 and the DC-8, you'll notice that they have four engines. That's because jet engines ...

Airliners have become an unremarkable part of modern life, but unless you happen to be an aircraft enthusiast, you’d be forgiven for thinking the latest Airbus model looks more or less the same ...

And there’s no guarantee that airliners flown by a computer would be any safer. Who writes the software? Fallible human beings. Airlines have already substantially reduced the size of the crew ...

Stories about lost parts and corners being cut on the production line might give American aviation a bad rap these days, but it's always fun to look at how far we've come in more than half a ...

China has lofty ambitions for the home-grown production of civil aviation aircraft. After more than two decades of work, the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (Comac) has put two types of ...

But jet engines of the type found in airliners and even the highest-speed fighter jets have their own limitations, according to Hallion. A jet engine is a rotating turbine that sucks air into an ...

The use of holographic technology inside airliner cabins is a focus of one company’s exhibit at the 2025 Aircraft Interiors ...

A singer in Australia when a cyclone hit said it sounded like "three of four jet airliners roaring over the roof". David Harrop from Warwickshire, who was in Brisbane, Queensland, for work when ...

Morrison said sometimes toilets on airliners or large planes can malfunction, which causes water to leak onto the outside of a plane and freeze "almost immediately." ...