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American Airlines Is In Such Dire Shape That Unions Want To Oust Its Leadership
Since American has a profit-sharing system with its employees, poor overall performance means smaller take-home pay.
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First-Ever Plane Landing On A Moving Train Took Practice With Two Electric Hypercars
The Rimac Nevera R is far from the typical aerobatic practice tool.
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Even Planes Are Not Safe From An LS Engine Swap, Apparently
All sorts of cars have seen their engines replaced by General Motors' LS small block. Now some enthusiasts are even swapping them into airplanes.
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FAA Shuts Down El Paso International Airport For 10 Days, Except It's Already Open Again, Because The Army Fired Lasers Against Mexican Cartel Drones, Except There Weren't Any
Everything's going just fine in the most powerful country on Earth, why do you ask?
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FAA Inspector Sues United Airlines For $12.75 Million Over Lifetime Ban
In fairness, it's not common for the passenger with the phone out, taking pictures of the cabin, to be an off-duty FAA inspector.
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After November Crash, UPS Sends All Of Its Ancient MD-11 Planes Into Not-So-Early Retirement
These elderly aircraft were already slated to be pulled out of the air in the next few years anyway; it's now obvious that they should have been pulled already.
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Greg Biffle's Plane Suffered Instrument Failure Prior To Crash, NTSB Preliminary Report Claims
New information revealed in the National Transportation Safety Board's preliminary report, however, sheds a little more light on what may have caused the crash.
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Two F-15s Refuse To Retire, Join NASA's Quesst For Civilian Supersonic Instead
Not content to watch these young whippersnapper planes take all the glory, the F-15s will be kitted out with sensory and data collection gear.
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It Wasn't The Pilots: NTSB Says The Black Hawk-Airliner Crash Was Due To FAA Failures
The NTSB accuses the FAA of a wide range of mistakes, both in the long, intermediate, and immediate term before the crash.
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Plane Crashes In Maine During Snowstorm, At Least 6 Dead
Weather is one of many factors the NTSB will be investigating, and it is far from the only potential cause of the crash.
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Crashing Out At The Detroit Airport Is Understandable, But Actually Crashing Into It Is Still Inadvisable
Jalopnik's official position is that you should not crash your car into the airport.
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Trump's Doomsday Plane: What's Inside The Government's Last-Resort Jet
Essentially, the doomsday plane is meant to let the President and Secretary of Defense coordinate the military from 30,000 feet, even in times of war.
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Government Realizes That Throwing Money At Air Traffic Control Is A Good Idea, Funds More Hiring And Pay Raises
That 3.8% raise for air traffic controllers is strangely conditional: the FAA administrator gets to decide whether or not to pay it out,
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Boeing Knew About The UPS Plane's Problem Long Before The Fatal Crash In November
Unfortunately, we're going to continue seeing aging aircraft in our skies for a long while.
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Boeing Finally Overtakes Airbus In Annual Sales Again
Boeing seems to finally be pulling out of its years-long nosedive.
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Small Plane Crashes Happen Far More Often Than You Probably Think
From January to July of 2025, the U.S. saw 623 plane crashes or about 3.4 per day.
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Now Ukrainian Drones Are Taking Out The Riders (But Not The Horses) Of Russian Cavalry, What Century Am I In?
In strict military terms, what the Russians are deploying are probably closer to dragoons than proper cavalry.
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Air Travel Boomed To A 15-Year High As Air Traffic Control Buckled
The FAA announced that 2025 was the busiest year for U.S. air travel since 2010, handling 17.2 million flights versus a mere 7.0 million flights in 2020.
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Planes Use Rivets But Cars Have Welds: Here's Why
Rivets hold planes together against high stresses thousands of feet off the ground, but they're not used by automakers, who choose welding instead. Here's why.
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FCC Bans Sale Of All Foreign Drones In The U.S.
If foreign drones get banned, why wouldn't all these bad guys just buy American drones instead? It's not clear how the prohibition solves the purported problem.
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After January Crash, Military Helicopters Can Once Again Fly In Washington, D.C. Without Tracking Technology (Except Maybe They Can't)
Well, Cruz and Cantwell did catch the provision before the NDAA passed, but too late to stop it.
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Genius Boeing 737 Pilot Escalates Pay Dispute By Barricading Cockpit, Refusing To Fly Passengers
This particular pilot informed his passengers over the intercom that he wanted his money: "This plane isn't leaving until they pay us what they owe us."
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Unruly Behavior On Flights Peaks Around Christmas And Better-Dressed Passengers Aren't Going To Fix It
After analyzing data from the past 25 years, the CBC found that more disruptive passenger reports are filed in December than in any other month.
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Autoland Emergency System Sees First Practical Use As Plane Loses Pressurization
The autonomous function safely guided the aircraft down to the runway, where first responders ensured the two pilots on board were unharmed.
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Why The B2 Stealth Bomber Had Trouble Flying In The Rain
The B2 bomber could evade radar and fly thousands of miles without refueling. But it had trouble with the most basic kind of stormy weather. Here's why.
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British Family Accused Of Smuggling Dead Body Onto Flight By Claiming Grandma Was 'Just Tired'
The good news is, they didn't carve Grandma up and try to smuggle her into the country in their carry-ons.
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Millions Of Venezuelans Now Rely On Just 20 Aging Planes As They Are Cut Off From The Rest Of The World
Holiday plans have been trashed, families are unable to bring elderly relatives medication and less-fortunate Venezuelans are stuck in foreign countries.
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