A good rule of thumb is to push the APR key whenever you hear the words “cleared for the approach.” For nonprecision ...

Each airline’s boarding pass has a different design, but the basics are all there. Your seat number, departure time, airline ...

The kneeboard is sort of a lap desk a pilot uses in flight. It doesn’t have to be huge. They can be as simple as a 5-by-7 ...

You’ll be flipping dozens of them just to power up the guidance computer or initiate reentry procedures. In almost every game ...

Boarding my 10.15pm flight to São Paulo from Heathrow last month, I found my seat. It is a journey I make around five times a ...

Because of their many redundancies, electronic fly-by-wire controls are actually far safer than traditional hydraulic ones.

The concept of blended-wing aircraft – where fuselage and wing are all one structure – is not new. But this radical design ...

People who fly frequently are aware of the announcement to put their phones in airplane mode before take off. If you don't, ...

The narrowbody Boeing 737, which had its maiden flight in 1967, began the process of eliminating the flight engineer. The ...

The Virtual Airplane Procedures Trainer is "powered by" the storied aviation sim and Microsoft Azure.