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In 1997, researchers quantified that the shark-skin-style riblets can reduce drag on airplanes by nearly 10 percent. However, commercial testing on real aircraft didn’t begin until 2016.

On Feb. 17, a plane was unable to land safely at a Toronto, Ontario, airport and flipped over on the runway. Nobody died, but 21 people were taken to hospital with injuries. A few weeks earlier ...

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One should never, for example, let the flag touch the ground. Yet some airplanes appear to violate proper flag standards by depicting it backwards on the aircraft, with the canton, or star-filled ...

Imagine if you need to fly in such an ambient for over 4 hours. The good news is that there's an easy solution – noise-canceling headphones for airplanes! They come with built-in microphones that pick ...

As a Ryanair flight from London approached Vilnius, Lithuania, on 17 January, its descent was suddenly aborted. Just minutes from touching down, the aircraft's essential Global Positioning System ...

(This story was updated because an earlier version included an inaccuracy.) Three civilian aircraft violated the restricted airspace over Mar-a-Lago on Saturday when President Donald Trump was in ...

Despite the challenges, hundreds of electric aircraft designs are under development worldwide. Air Canada bought 30 hybrid-electric passenger airplanes in 2022. These should go into service in 2028, a ...

He added that most of these common passenger jet airplanes operate between 30,000 and 40,000 feet. Anything above 45,000 feet and the plane reaches a “service ceiling,” where it’s unable to ...