On this day in aviation history-67 years ago, on May 30, 1958-the Douglas DC-8 made its maiden flight. At the controls ... 8-to compete directly with Boeing’s 707. The DC-8 was a narrow-body ...

"It just appears to me that the airplane is unable to climb," former NTSB investigator Jeff Guzzetti tells NPR. Several ...

Boeing designed the basic shape of passenger jet aircraft we use today, inspired by the B-52 bomber. Boeing then created the 707, which was the first successful major passenger jet, and the Boeing ...

United Airlines flight 507 from San Fransisco to Rome issued an emergency squawk code halfway over the Atlantic Ocean. Flight ...

A British Airways flight to Chennai, India, entered a series of holding patterns to dump fuel before returning to London's ...

Makes sense, but where did that "X7" part come from? That goes back to Boeing's very first commercial jet, the 707 (pictured), first flown in 1957. Theoretically, that could have just been called ...

It's been nearly 50 years since the Hughes YAH-64 prototype lifted off for the first time in September 1975 and Boeing is now looking at how to keep the iconic attack helicopter flying for another ...

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An Air India jet flying from Ahmedabad to London crashed shortly after takeoff into a fireball with 242 people aboard.

A Boeing 737 Max landed in China on Monday, the first such transport after a trade clash between Washington and Beijing stopped deliveries for close to two months. According to Reuters ...

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