Aviation

Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images)I love airplanes. I love flying. Hell, I even love airports. There’s just something about it that really gets my goat. This love of flying really took off (heh) after I started working at Jalopnik. See,…

A Black Hawk helicopter performs a military flyover on day four of the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 at Hayward Field on July 18, 2022 in Eugene, Oregon. Photo: Andy Lyons/Getty Images for World Athletics) (Getty Images)Two Black H…

Photo: Steve Russell/Toronto Star (Getty Images)The sanctions imposed on Russia after its invasion of Ukraine have significantly impacted that country’seconomy, particularly its aviation industry. Russian commercial carriers, like…

Photo: Bruce Bennett / Staff (Getty Images)I’m sure you’ve all been there before. You’re on yet another flight. The flight attendant is going through their safety spiel. You’re wondering if you should have paid the extra money for Comfort+…

Photo: Matthew Horwood (Getty Images)Unless you’re an airline mechanic, the maintenance of commercial airliners isn’t a worry in your everyday life. The aircraft that carry hundreds of millions of passengers from airport to airport…

The damaged Wright Brothers factoryScreenshot: WHIOA fire has damaged the Dayton, Ohio factory built in 1910 by Orville and Wilbur Wright, the pioneers of powered, heavier-than-air aircraft. The rate of technical progress in aviation after…

Against the silver-gray sky in the old film reel, the bulbous jet lurches upwards like a flying saucer in an old Ray Harryhausen film. The Short SC1 aircraft, a British-built experimental plane, was the first fixed-wing plane built in the…

Apparently, flying cars are the future of personal transport and, one day, we’ll all be zipping around in the skies getting from A to B with ease. Butas it stands, no flying cars actually exist yet, so we have to make do with startups…

Photo: Daniel Brenner/Bloomberg (Getty Images)Frontier Airlines has had a very intriguing past 13 months. The Denver-based low-cost carrier lost out in a billion-dollar bidding war to acquire Spirit Airlines against JetBlue. Last October,…

Photo: Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto (Getty Images)International airports are the first impression that most travelers have of a country or major city. Terminals serve as literal gateways to the world where millions of passengers pass through…