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Profiles in Aviation: The Unexpected Naval Aviator – TV Legend Bob Barker

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Lufthansa Wants to Upgrade Their Passenger 747s

Mike Killian

A FedEx McDonnell Douglas DC-10 on short final at Memphis (MEM)

The End of an Era: No scheduled DC-10 Service In The US

Dave Hartland

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Atlas Air Draws Queen’s Crown in the Sky For Boeing’s Last 747

Mike Killian

End Of An Era: Last 747 Built Rolls Out of Boeing’s Factory

Mike Killian

Remembering Jimmy Buffett-Parrothead, Musician, and Pilot

Mike Killian

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Stargazer: The Lone Flying L-1011 TriStar

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Remembering Western Airlines: The Only Way to Fly!

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Eight Years After the Farewell: US Airways’ Enduring Legacy

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And Then There Were Five: The DC-8 in 2023

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Silver Falcons & Golden Falcons: Eastern Air Lines in the 1950s

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The Face of Hawaiian Airlines, Leina’ala Drummond, Has Died

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Advice on Interviewing for United’s AVIATE Program

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Final Reno Air Races Ends with Mid-Air Collision

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NASA 836: The Oldest and Fastest F-15 in the World

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Petition Asks FAA to Credit MQ-9 Pilot Hours Towards Certifications

Military History

Hero in Our Midst: The Air Force Academy Janitor Who Received The Medal of Honor

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Military

Skyraider In Combat: Getting Shot At and Shooting Back

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My Fighter Career: Skyraider Weapons Employment

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Fan’s Reaction To A Final F-14 Flyover Is Fantastic

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Eight Years After the Farewell: US Airways’ Enduring Legacy

Dave Hartland

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Silver Falcons & Golden Falcons: Eastern Air Lines in the 1950s

David H. Stringer

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The Wings of Man: Eastern Air Lines in the 1960s

David H. Stringer

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The Airline That Featured a Greyhound Peeing on a 727

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She Broke the Color Barrier When She Became the First African-American Flight Attendant

David H. Stringer

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Northwest Orient Airlines: Proud Pioneers Faced With Many Challenges

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Tower Air: A Jumbo Mess Of An Airline

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Rare Air: Wait- America West Flew the 747?

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Lake Central: The Intriguing Story of the Airline with a Heart

David H. Stringer

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Airlines We Miss: Vanguard Airlines

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Twenty Years Since The Last Supersonic Passenger Flight, What’s Next?

As a people, we like to think that we’re living in the most advanced society. Today you can carry on a conversation with your computer via ChatGPT. Taxis sometimes drive you around…

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Flying On Qatar Airways’ Boeing 777-300ER

In October, in the middle of completing an around the world trip for Skylite Productions, I had the pleasure of flying Qatar Airways from Bangkok, Thailand to Doha, Qatar. What was it like?…

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Space

Check Out These Incredible Views of Starship’s 2nd Launch

SpaceX recently launched their second Starship flight test, and it produced some spectacular photos and videos. The enormous new heavy-lift booster and spacecraft are early in development,…

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Stargazer: The Lone Flying L-1011 TriStar

Out of 250 Lockheed L-1011 TriStars ever built, only one remains airworthy today. The Lockheed L-1011 TriStar was a groundbreaking aircraft for its time. In the transformative decade of…

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Remembering Western Airlines: The Only Way to Fly!

We remember Western Airlines, one of America’s iconic air carriers that offered innovative in-flight service. It is Tuesday, May 7, 1957, and you are a passenger aboard Western Airlines…

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Delta Prepares to Bid Adieu to the Plane We All Love to Hate

Breaking up is hard to do, but the end is finally near. Delta Air Lines will end operations on its once-massive fleet of CRJ-200s on 30 November. That means beginning in December, not a…

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A modified U-2 spyplane landed on an aircraft carrier and later performed a mission from the USS Ranger. Image: CIA

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Back When a U-2 Spyplane Operated From an Aircraft Carrier

The U-2 Dragonfly was not only tested on a carrier, the jet actually carried out a successful spy mission for the CIA A while ago, we wrote an article about a C-130 that did carrier trials. As…

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Watch SpaceX Launch Their 2nd Starship Test

UPDATE: Starship 25 (the second full test launch) launched today shortly after 7am Central Time. The first stage separated successfully but then encountered an anomaly and was destroyed. The…

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Two chartered luxury-configured A321NEO sit on the tarmac at Alliance Airport in Fort Worth, Texas. Image: Centerline Images

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Commercial News

Couple Charters Airbus A340 and Two A321Neos For Paris Wedding

Talk about the Ultimate Flex! Couple flies family and friends from Fort Worth, Texas to Paris for a Wedding. Last night, I witnessed an incredible charter operation taking place at Fort…

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Boeing Scores Big at Dubai Airshow

It was a very good week for Boeing as two major Middle Eastern carriers, Emirates and flydubai, placed orders worth a staggering $63 billion on the opening day of the 2023 Dubai Airshow. The…

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