On June 20, 1981, Theresa Claiborne was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. The Air Force’s first Black female pilot, Claiborne would become the first Black woman to command and ...
The Garuda Indonesia flight - also carrying 18 crew members - was bound for Medina in Saudi Arabia but had to land back at ...
The Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah has held his position as ruler of Brunei for more than five decades and is one of the world’s ...
The Sultan of Brunei’s ultra-luxurious private Boeing 747-400, known as the “Floating Palace”, arrived in Auckland as part of an international flight route ...
The US Air Force often finds military applications for civilian aircraft, from business jets to interplanetary spaceships.
The edge of the 1968 Washington quarter is reeded. 1968 saw the first flight of Boeing’s 747 jumbo jet while NASA’s Apollo 8 was in lunar orbit. Two peace campaigners, Martin Luther King Jr., and ...
This is no dig at the Queensland capital – more an expression of delight in being aboard the Spirit of the Outback for its epic 26-hour trek to the outback town of Longreach. I’m enjoying my neat ...
Cathay Pacific (Cathay) has announced it will resume services from Hong Kong to Hyderabad on March 30, 2025. The service will initially start with three weekly services departing Hong Kong on ...
The Airbus A380 is the world’s largest passenger plane, and an upgraded version of the aircraft could have transformed ...