Aircraft Builders Try to Take Some of the Ordeal Out of Flying
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SEATTLE -- You stagger off a long flight, feeling sticky, tired and dehydrated. You're still fuming at the flight attendant who abruptly turned on the cabin lights, awaking you from a moment's sleep.
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The nationâs fleet of commercial planes is aging as carriers put off buying more comfortable and fuel-efficient jets.
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PARIS The battle between Boeing and Airbus, which has culminated in the filing of competing unfair trade cases over government aid to the world&#39;s two largest aircraft manufacturers, appears on the surface to be based on simple issues.
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Engineers at NASA, Boeing, are working to realize the longtime dream of a flying car--but admit we're still decades from a Jetson-like world.
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German and French employees of Airbus demonstrate amid fears of cutbacks at the planemaker.
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Seattle -- The assembly line at Boeing Co.&#39;s cavernous Everett plant near here is designed to keep moving continuously, if almost imperceptibly, as workers scramble over the silvery bodies of skeletal Boeing 777s, applying finishing touches.
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Despite recent high-profile tragedies, the fatality rate for small jets parallels that of big planes.
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TOULOUSE, France, Jan. 16 -- The problem for Airbus and Boeing isn't too few customers, it's making planes fast enough to meet demand.
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With most of the industry returning to profitability, pilots are demanding that they should recoup some of the pay and other benefits they gave up in recent years.
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EcoMotors is concocting an engine with two pistons in one honking cylinder. It harks back to what plane engineers tinkered with in the 1930s.
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While pilots still feel in command in the air, they increasingly are feeling slighted on the ground, as airlines extract salary and benefits concessions from them.
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Unmanned aircraft with hydrogen engine does well in preliminary tests.
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Some of the biggest names in European aviation team up with the EU to develop cleaner aircraft.
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With the misery that has plagued the airline industry recently, the last place you&#39;d expect to see some inspiring -- heck, potentially rule-breaking -- thinking would be from an airline entrepreneur.
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By now, maintenance on Concorde involves a thorough dusting, but a dogged group of British aviation buffs is hoping to hear the roar of those big engines again.
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Plug and play â a popular concept that allows buyers of computers and electronic games to avoid frustrating assembly â is proving hard to pull off for Boeing.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil -- For months, air safety concerns have been discussed in congressional hearings, and pilots and traffic controllers have worried for years about the short, slippery runways at Brazil's busiest airport.