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The Wall Street Journal again fails to understand aviation in spinning a tale about the mega-jumbo’s modest production life.

The tragic crash was unusual in a few ways, some of them easy to understand, others we might never get to the bottom of.

Is the aerospace giant’s announcement of an autonomous quadcopter a vote of confidence, or something else?

The partial government shutdown is in Day 19, and things are getting bad. They could soon be worse.

A reflection on the sad state of ignorance among pilots regarding how our airplanes fly.

Part of the job of an aviation journalist is to write about things that are really hard to write about.

There is a definite correlation among airspeed, stopping power, braking action, and available runway. The math is really complicated, but pilots are really good at getting it right. Most of the time, that is.

Remembering a private tour of the incredible Antonov An-225 Mriya.

Why are people fascinated by airline crashes? And what are the reporter’s ethical obligations when investigators keep the public largely in the dark?

The historically mostly stable relationship between military and civilian flying jobs has changed and could be devastating to military aviation.