Are you phoning it in when a flight attendant orders you to switch your cell to airplane mode? Airline workers have long ordered flyers to switch off their cellular devices, saying failure to do ...

Aircraft manufacturer Cirrus is launching the first Federal Aviation Administration-approved autonomous safety system in a single-engine piston airplane. It’s called “Safe Return,” and it is ...

Plane and simple, you shouldn’t be using airplane blankets. Flight attendants are warning that the complimentary blankets given out on planes are full of gross things like hair, food ...

PETRÓPOLIS, Brazil — Who invented the airplane? Questions don’t get much simpler. But in Brazil and the United States, the answer you’ll get isn’t likely to be the same. In 1903 ...

While airplane manufacturers try to make sure that the planes are as aerodynamic as possible, they still add these hooks on the wings because of their important use case. Along with the oxygen ...

The stellar view from an aircraft window makes window seats the most coveted spots in the airplane cabin, although there are some seats you'd definitely want to avoid. While some mockingly refer ...

Electric-powered aircraft may seem like a vague, future promise in the pursuit of decarbonizing aviation, but a handful of battery-powered planes are already in flight. These days, it’s mostly ...

How few corners can a shape have and still tile the plane?” mathematician Gábor Domokos asked me over pizza. His deceptively simple question was about the geometry of tilings, also called ...

(Image:AirlineGeeks) One lesser-known fact about airplane graveyards is that they ... and even tow the airplanes around to keep the tires in good shape. This level of care ensures that the ...

But one maneuver stands out as a crowd favorite: the barrel roll, in which an airplane does a complete 360-degree rotation while airborne. It should come as no surprise that accomplishing this ...