Planes don’t bend that way. Image: 6abc Philadelphia via YouTube Airports might seem like organized chaos at times, but believe it or not there’s a careful choreography going on to bring aircraft in to land and send others into the skies safely. Sometimes, it doesn’t all go to plan and this week disaster struck when … Read more
Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images) No one enjoys enduring an airport layover. However, very few people go as far as to threaten to blow up an international airport over the lack of direct flights to their preferred destination. As KLAS reported, an angry passenger in Las Vegas on Monday not only said he wanted to … Read more
Photo: Brandon Bell / Staff (Getty Images) A tire explosion in the maintenance area of Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport killed two early Tuesday morning. WSB-TV reports that the tire exploded while workers were attempting to remove it from the plane. The explosion killed both a Delta employee and a contractor. A third person who is … Read more
JetBlue Airways is cutting a whole bunch of unprofitable routes to destinations both in the U.S. and overseas. It’s leaving five cities altogether as it looks to save money after its $3.8 billion bid to buy Spirit Airlines was blocked by a judge earlier this year. The 2024 Toyota Yaris GR Sport: America Is Missing … Read more
Here we present our weekly Jalopnik series that recaps the latest in beyond cars. We’ve showcased our most read offerings as well as some you may have missed. Delta’s Luggage Only Flight There’s A Relic Runway From America’s Failed Supersonic Future Hiding In The Everglades Supersonic airliners never became as common as airlines and government … Read more
Supersonic airliners never became as common as airlines and government officials hoped.Photo: Victor Drees/Daily Express/Hulton Archive (Getty Images) When supersonic flight was set to transform passenger air travel in the late 1960s, Miami-Dade County had grand ambitions of becoming the center of commercial aviation’s fledgling intercontinental network. Local government wanted to construct the world’s largest … Read more
