The DC-8 entered airline service parallel to the Boeing ... capabilities that firmly established it as a key player in the early jet age. The DC-8 was designed for transcontinental and ...

what we are doing is retiring 21 aircraft early. That is something that will be cash-positive this year." Although the airline anticipates lower-than-expected profitability for the first quarter ...

In the early 1970s, computers in cockpits replaced flight engineers, who currently fly only on 1970s-era airliners, like the Lockheed L-1011. The world’s first jet airliner, the British-built de ...

Airliners have become an unremarkable part of modern life, but unless you happen to be an aircraft enthusiast, you’d be forgiven for thinking the latest Airbus model looks more or less the same ...

The program was initially funded by the Canadian government in the early 1950s as a ... 50,000 people and developed aircraft ranging from the flying saucers to airliners to Mach 2 interceptors.

The Comet 1 airliner roared into the air— and into history—on 20,000 pounds of thrust from its four De Havilland Ghost jet engines. For the first time ever, a jet-propelled aircraft was ...