Hundreds of different passenger airliners have gone into service in the last century-plus. Only a handful went on to be remembered in any substantial way. But the Douglas DC-7 sure did, if not always ...

The age of the McDonnell Douglas DC-8 has finally come to an end in the US. N782SP, a DC-8-72CF that has been operating for Christian humanitarian aid organization Samaritan's Purse, has flown its ...

In decades gone by, air travel was very exclusive indeed. In the late 1920s and the beginning of the commercial flight boom, two round-trip tickets for a flight across the United States cost as much ...

Perhaps the most important aircraft in the history of commercial aviation was the Douglas DC-3. This year will mark the 90 th anniversary of the first commercial flight of the DC-3. On June 25, 1936, ...

To understand modern widebody aircraft design, we need to return to the late 1970s and early 1980s, a period when two aircraft helped shape the trajectory of the long-haul jets we see in the skies ...