Plane flights can be hard. Given how crowded flights are, and how there is no way to escape from them after takeoff, passengers generally have to rely on each other to act civil and be polite. Though the worst most …

Think about all the different components that goes into making an aircraft engine. The complexity and costs of each engine must be the reason why more people don’t build aircraft in their spare time. Rolls-Royce, maker of fine aircraft engines, …

5 years ago at a conference on advanced aircraft technologies someone brought up the question of electric airplanes. All the engineers there laughed at the idea but Boeing took it as a challenge. They started to think about ways they …

After she disappeared without a trace with her navigator, Fred Noonan on July 2, 1937, Amelia Earhart has captured the fascination of millions as the mystery of what happened to her–and her plane–remain shrouded in shadows. Several extensive searches on …

The massive 767-200 Google jet will be able to land at Mountain View’s highly coveted Moffett Field, thanks to a deal with NASA.

The European Union is going to the World Trade Organization with its dispute with the United States over subsidies to Airbus and Boeing, said EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson.

Oracle said it plans to release a new software program in May designed to reduce the aviation industry’s spare-parts inventory costs by billions of dollars.