Fifty Years On, No Crewed Jet Has Beaten the SR-71 Blackbird's 1976 Speed Record
The SR-71 Blackbird set a crewed jet speed record of 2,193 mph in 1976. Here's how it flew, why it was retired...
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Two Airlines Tried to Build a Hub at Raleigh-Durham. Both Failed for the Same Reason.
American and Midway both tried to build connecting hubs at Raleigh-Durham airport. Here's why geography made b...
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Chlorine, Cadmium and the SR-71: How Burbank's Tap Water Nearly Grounded the Blackbird
How Skunk Works traced cracking SR-71 titanium panels to chlorinated summer tap water in Burbank — plus the ca...
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Denver's Airport Opened 16 Months Late Because of a Baggage System That Never Worked
Denver International's automated baggage system delayed its 1995 opening by 16 months and pushed costs past $1...
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Fugitive from Japan's 1970 Yodo hijacking reportedly dies in Pyongyang, closing a Cold War chapter
The last known fugitive from Japan's 1970 Yodo hijacking reportedly died in Pyongyang. What the case means and...
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Tiny Broadwick: The Four-Foot-Seven Jumper Who Changed Aviation Forever
How Tiny Broadwick, a 4-foot-7 daredevil from North Carolina, became the first woman to parachute from an airp...
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Five US Air Force Bases Where Cold War-Era Aircraft Are Still Flying
From the B-52 at Barksdale to the U-2 at Beale — five US Air Force bases where 1950s-era aircraft are still in...
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25 Years After 9/11: How One Morning Rewrote the Rules of Flying
How 9/11 reshaped flying: the TSA, the 3-1-1 rule, Global Entry, PreCheck and the airline mergers that created...
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Concorde Was Cleared to Fly Again on 9/11. The Timing Couldn't Have Been Worse.
Concorde was cleared to fly again on 9/11 — the same morning the attacks destroyed the premium market it depen...
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Minneapolis-St. Paul: The Airport That Kept the DC-9 Alive Longer Than Anywhere Else
How Northwest's DC-9 fleet and MSP's short-haul network kept the classic jet economic until Delta's 2014 farew...
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25 Years On: A Reflection on Tom Burnett and United Flight 93
A 25th-anniversary reflection on Tom Burnett, United Flight 93, and why the story hits differently for busines...
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The Rear-Fan Engine That Sank the World's Fastest Airliner
How GE's experimental aft-fan CJ805-23 engine and Convair's speed-first 990 Coronado — the fastest airliner of...
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