Near miss on DC airport runway spurs FAA investigation

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said it will investigate a near miss on the runway of the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport outside Washington, D.C., Thursday morning, in which one plane nearly crossed into a runway as another plane was taking off. According to an emailed statement from the FAA, an air traffic controller instructed … Read more

What The Hell Is Going On With Airlines Right Now?

Photo: NASA The beloved Mars helicopter Ingenuity took its final flight in January, bringing its mission to an end after a historic three-year run on Mars. The helicopter was the first to fly on a planet other than Earth, and it racked up many other accolades before succumbing to rotor damage that prevented future flights, … Read more

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 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