by Isabel Goyer

The solemn 10-year anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks against the United States came and went without any new provocations, amidst heightened security at airports and other transportation hubs nationwide. Wreaths were laid, speeches were made, and tears were shed at several places around the country, but most visibly at the three sites of the […]

An award-winning professor at MIT is working to develop a system to spot accident trends in airline flying before the accident happens. MIT’s John Hansman along with colleagues at MIT and in Spain are working on a data analysis detection tool that uses cluster analysis, which is a form of data mining that breaks flights […]

(October 2011) In today’s challenging used biz-jet market, it’s safe to say that value is everything and that even then it’s sometimes not enough. This has led to some remarkable refurbishment programs designed to take much of the used airplane part out of the equation while actually giving buyers better performance — in some cases […]

A story that appeared Wednesday in The New York Times — but which actually dates back more than a year — reported on a U.S. Air Force program that takes lightly used, corporate-configured King Airs and turns them into spy planes — the newly named Liberty MC-12, which are used to gather intelligence on enemy […]

A chartered Russian jet crashed shortly after takeoff from Tunoshna, Russia, on Wednesday, killing most of the members of the elite Russian hockey team Lokomotiv. The flight was on its way to Minsk, Belarus, for the opening game of the team’s hockey season. Reportedly among the dead are Lokomotiv head coach Brad McCrimmon, an NHL […]

The FBI and Department of Homeland Security a few days ago issued a warning that small airplanes might be used as improvised flying devices against civilian targets by terrorists looking to make a deadly statement on the 10th anniversary of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The advisory went on to say that there was […]

Once again this late summer, desolate Nevada berg Black Rock City finds itself home to thousands of artists, freaks and spectators for the remarkably quirky festival known as Burning Man (Aug. 29 to Sept. 5), which culminates each year with the eponymous torching of a huge human effigy. There are, it goes without saying, a […]

Aerobatics legend Betty Skelton died at her home in Winter Park, Florida, on Tuesday at the age of 85. Skelton won the 1948, 1949 and 1950 U.S. National Female Aerobatic Championships, the latter two titles in her famous Pitts Special, Li’l Stinker, which today hangs in the Smithsonian. In addition to her aerobatics prowess, Skelton […]

The massive storm that was Hurricane Irene spared the East Coast much of the damage that had been feared, as its winds dissipated shortly after it made landfall in North Carolina on Saturday, its energy diffused by wind shear and starved of moisture by dry continental air once it made landfall. All three major airports […]

James Peters, a 40-year-old helicopter pilot for the Department of Homeland Security, went on trial this week for his role in the aftermath of the death of an alleged border crosser back in 2005. In federal court in Houston, Texas, Peters is accused of making false statements to prosecutors about the incident, which resulted in […]