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Here’s how a British Airways Boeing 747 that lost all four engines due to volcanic ash was able to land safely

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Boeing 757 pilot recalls when he and his captain did an unrestricted climb to 10,000 feet (with no passengers aboard)

United Airlines Boeing 757 Pilot Recalls Challenging Landing Test for New Pilot

Did you know Concorde used the afterburners only on take-off and for a short while between Mach 0.95 and 1.5?

How Many Boeing 747s have crashed?

Former Boeing Employee explains why the company didn’t develop the 757 instead of the older 737

Remembering the deadliest incident in aviation history: When a KLM Boeing 747 Collided with a Pan Am Boeing 747 on the tarmac at the Tenerife Airport

The day Boeing test pilot Alvin “Tex” Johnston Barrel Rolled the prototype of the Boeing 707

Boeing delivers final 747 Airplane bringing to a close more than a half century of production

Airline pilot explains why future passenger jets could be Windowless

The story of the four British Airways Concorde Supersonic Airliners that flew in formation on Christmas Eve

End of an era: Final Boeing 747 Airplane Leaves the company’s Everett Factory

When a FedEx Flight Engineer tried to hijack a company DC-10 cargo aircraft, its aircrew went inverted to keep him off his feet. The story of FedEx Flight 705.

When a British Airways Captain got sucked out of a BAC One-Eleven a flight attendant grabbed his legs and avoided him going out completely

Former Boeing 727 Pilot tells the Story of when a Passenger confused a Thunderstorm Cloud for a Nuclear Mushroom Cloud, started a Ruckus aboard the Airliner and asked him to Land

‘It was not a true luxury experience:’ Air Traffic Controller describes what it was really like flying on the Concorde Supersonic Airliner

Boeing 767 pilot explains how he was able to safely land his fully loaded airliner with a 5 by 6-foot hole all the way through a wing caused by a tire blowout

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