Inventors killed by their own inventions? It happens. You may know that Nobel-winning chemist Marie Curie died from the effects of the radioactive...
Wired | Spencer Ackerman | Posted 05.16.2012
For five years, America’s most expensive fighter jets have been poisoning their pilots and crew. On Tuesday, the Defense Secretary finally stepped i...
AP | BINAJ GURUBACHARYA | Posted 05.14.2012
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A plane crashed into a mountain in the Himalayas while trying to land at an airport in northern Nepal on Monday, killing 15 p...
Grant Cardone | Posted 05.12.2012
Let's face it, the FAA is toothless. They claim to have conducted a full investigation but never once did they call or contact me to discuss the incident or fully ascertain the facts.
Posted 05.10.2012
The father of a young skydiver killed in a 2010 plane crash in a scenic area of New Zealand took to the airwaves yesterday, claiming that the island n...
AP | DON BABWIN | Posted 05.10.2012
CHICAGO -- Airline pilot Denny Fitch was hitching a ride home on a DC-10 in 1989 when heard an explosion somewhere in the back of the jet. He soon mad...
ProPublica | Posted 05.04.2012
From intrusive pat-downs to body scans to perceived profiling, the Transportation Security Administration always seems to be the target of complaints....
Posted 04.24.2012
Discovery Channel's one-hour special, "World’s Scariest Plane Landings" (Mon., 10 p.m. ET on Discovery), was not for the faint-hearted or those with...
Christine Negroni | Posted 05.28.2012
This story strikes me as terribly tragic and eerily reminiscent of what happened to a friend of mine, an experienced airline pilot.
Zoe P. Strassfield | Posted 05.20.2012
"The thing I want people to take away is the example of international collaboration that created and built the space station. It's just awe-inspiring."
HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 03.12.2012
Last Wednesday, the environmental advocacy group Friends of the Earth filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, challenging th...
AP | Posted 03.02.2012
NEW YORK — Authorities say a college student from China was arrested trying to carry a combination stun gun and flashlight onto a plane in New Y...
Posted 12.21.2011
Named after the pioneering female pilot, Amelia Rose Earhart is constantly asked whether she flies planes. So the Denver 9News reporter finally decide...
Zoe P. Strassfield | Posted 02.05.2012
If even one person who reads this comes away aware of the historical significance of December 17th, then I will consider myself successful in writing this.
Jim Egan | Posted 02.05.2012
In pursuing a brand comeback strategy, UBS' "We Will Not Rest" ad campaign is false and misleading, and reveals a UBS orientation in stark contrast to its claims.
Posted 12.05.2011
The following is an excerpt from Global Remains: Abandoned Architecture and Objects from Seven Continents by Michael Clinton, out now from Glitterati....
Posted 01.11.2012
The opening of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art on Friday put Bentonville, Arkansas on the map in a very new way. The town was previously no...
Posted 01.04.2012
The flying public may know them generally as "paint jobs," but airlines call their colors liveries, a charmingly old-fashioned word drawn from Latin b...
HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 12.24.2011
WASHINGTON -- The chairman of the House committee that oversees the Transportation Security Administration blasted the agency's recent test of "chat-d...
Posted 12.17.2011
A new video from Indian low cost carrier SpiceJet takes viewers inside a Canadian factory where one of its new Bombardier Q400 passenger planes is ass...
www.dailymail.co.uk | Posted 12.14.2011
A new book has revealed the final words of the cockpit crew of doomed Air France Flight 447, which crashed into the South Atlantic off the coast of Br...
HuffingtonPost.com | Andrew Burmon | Posted 11.09.2011
On September 11, 2001, Doug Beidler watched the coverage of the attacks on the World Trade Center with the rest of his American Airlines flight class....
Lea Lane | Posted 10.24.2011
Twenty-seven years ago, when I was managing editor of a publication called Travel Smart, I was invited with a few other writers on the first flight of Branson's new airline, Virgin Atlantic, flying from England to Newark.
Christine Negroni | Posted 09.28.2011
A $16 million difference of opinion is costing the federal government $30 million a day in uncollectable aviation taxes.
Zoe P. Strassfield | Posted 09.19.2011
I think there's a very good chance that John Glenn was the first astronaut whose name I ever learned. So getting to hear him speak was an exceedingly memorable moment.
Posted 05.30.2012