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ForeFlight opened for business in 2007 around a single mission; creating software that makes flight planning easier. Yesterday, The Boeing Company announced it had formally acquired Houston-based ForeFlight. Users have, over the past two years, been able to take advantage of Jeppesen aeronautical charts through ForeFlight’s popular mobile platforms. The link with Boeing is expected […]

In recognition of March as Women’s History Month, United Airlines launched a first-of-its-kind contest to identify and lift up under-represented women artists. Supporting the contest, United said, “According to the National Museum of Women in the Arts, 51 percent of today’s artists are women, but less than 13 percent of art on display in museums […]

National Transportation Safety Board investigators are on site in Houston trying to piece together what happened in the moments before Atlas Air Flight 3591 crashed into Trinity Bay on its approach, killing the three people on board. The Boeing 767-300 had flown from Miami to deliver packages for Amazon’s Prime Air division when for an […]

What could possibly be as impressive as a hotel with its own Boeing 747 decked out in the company logo, except being able to view that airplane from the front door? Amsterdam’s Corendon Village Hotel added a retired KLM 747 to its property a few weeks ago when the aircraft was moved to the hotel’s […]

The Experimental Aircraft Association will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Boeing 747 at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2019 this summer with programming taking place throughout the week. EAA noted that the “Queen of the Skies,” as the 747 is affectionately known among its legions of fans, was developed by Boeing during a time when long-distance […]

Much of the skepticism about whether the Aerion SST 12-seat business jet might ever fly was probably squashed when Boeing NeXt said this week it was making a significant investment into the Reno, Nevada, aircraft builder. Boeing NeXt’s portfolio includes autonomous air vehicles and passenger-carrying hypersonic aircraft. Founded in 2003 to develop new, more efficient […]

Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences conducted the first test flight of its all-electric autonomous passenger air vehicle. The unpiloted vehicle took off vertically, hovered for a few seconds, and then landed at the company’s test site in Manassas, Virginia. Boeing said future flights will test forward, wing-borne flight, as well as the transition phase between […]

All Nippon Airways and Boeing are reportedly investigating an incident on January 17 in Japan in which both engines on a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner shut down simultaneously on rollout after landing. Flight NH985 from Tokyo Haneda Airport to Osaka Itami Airport with 118 people on board was rolling down the runway after touchdown when the […]

Indonesian navy divers have recovered the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) from the Lion Air Boeing 737 Max 8 that crashed into the Java Sea on October 29, marking a breakthrough in the investigation that could answer vital questions about what caused the disaster that took the lives of all 189 people on board. The CVR […]

In what some pilots are calling an inconceivable moment in flight operations and training, Boeing recently admitted the existence of the maneuvering characteristics augmentation system (MCAS), an angle of attack related stall prevention system that was unknown to operators of the Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft, like the one flown last week by a Lion […]