The 727 wins ‘cool points’ for its tri-jet configuration, three engines handsomely placed below a T-tail. The T-tail, with ...

The airplane experience has changed a lot since the 1960s, when tickets could cost up to five times more than today's prices, passengers could smoke on the plane and have as much booze as they could ...

From the 1960s to the 1970s, general aviation experienced a "golden age" of rapid development and diversification, with major manufacturers like Cessna, Piper, and Beechcraft producing a vast array of ...

CHICO — One of only two of its kind, the B-17 aircraft flying this week out of the Chico Airport has seen the world at war and spent nearly two decades fighting fires. After World War II the aircraft ...

In mid-September 2024, an image allegedly depicting the economy class cabin of a PanAm Boeing 747 aircraft in the 1960s was shared on Facebook. The photo showed a wide airplane cabin with two aisles, ...