Many of the airliners that professional data trackers can no longer account for are believed to have disappeared somewhere in Africa, an enormous land mass with a number of countries that have weak ...

In mid-2018, Bombardier of Canada transferred its promising new CSeries jet airliner program to Airbus. Starting with two versions of up to 130 seats, the CSeries promised to be a line of ...

There’s something deeply frustrating about the fact that the world’s fastest airplanes are not carrying passengers. Airliners flying at supersonic speeds can cut 11-hour trips to five hours, and ...

The contemporary airliners are so safe, efficient and reliable, and we tend to overlook that. Unnoticed, they bridge continents, transporting millions of passengers each day in highly accurate fashion ...

For most people, private jets are typically smaller planes, with the largest purpose-built models, like the Bombardier Global 7500/8000, often sitting fewer than 20 passengers. If you need a larger ...

A Dutch startup says everyone's hugely underestimating the potential of battery-electric aircraft – that it's possible to build large battery-electric airliners covering distances most assume we'll ...

Helicopter airliners could save us time and lessen the need for building expensive airports. So why don’t we have them? Airports are expensive things to build. And they require vast amounts of space, ...

According to the Aircraft Fleet Recycling Association (AFRA), anywhere between 400 to 500 cargo and passenger airplanes are recycled annually in America. Of all those giant airliners, little Cessnas, ...

If you’re old enough to have flown on a Boeing 707, or a Douglas DC-8, or even a Lockheed L-1011, you remember a time when jets were fast, comfortable and often both. Today, there are slower and are ...