Photo: Brendan Hoffman (Getty Images) Two airliners almost collided on a runway at Reagan National Airport just outside of Washington, D.C. on Thursday morning. A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 was cleared to taxi across a runway, while a JetBlue Embraer ERJ-190 was about to take off on the same runway. WTOP reports the potential disaster … Read more
Photo: Joe Raedle (Getty Images) It seems like a few Republican lawmakers want gold slab-serif lettering to welcome Americans flying into the nation’s capital. A bill introduced in the House of Representatives aims to rename Washington Dulles International Airport after former President Donald Trump. The change isn’t likely to become a reality as the Democrats … Read more
Living near an airport can be everything from dangerous to downright disruptive. People who usually live near these airports and their busy areas of traffic often try to get things at the airport changed, but it’s usually unsuccessful. One household in Washington D.C., though, took things to a whole new level by issuing over 7,000 … Read more
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
Photo: Sla2931 via Wikimedia Commons “Joplin, MO. “Two gates, two vending machines and one carrier, so only one gate gets used. “90% of the passengers would stay outside security until boarding was called, then mosey through TSA and get on board.” I wonder what the gate to vending machine ratio is in most large airports? … Read more
I recently had a conversation with someone who argued Legos should only ever be built to the instructions of the kit, you should never dismantle them and make what your heart desires. That’s ridiculous and is clearly not a belief held by Richard Paules, who has just thrown the covers off an incredible Lego replica … 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
A woman was stopped by Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers at Reagan Washington National Airport on Christmas Eve after a loaded handgun was detected in her bag. The 9 mm gun, which was loaded with six bullets, was found among the woman’s carry-on items when going through security at the Arlington, Va., airport just outside … Read more
Photo: Jordan Vonderhaar/Bloomberg (Getty Images) In aviation, there’s a theory called Big Sky — the idea that there’s just so much sky out there, it’s unlikely for two planes to ever hit each other. Before radar and GPS, it was an accepted way for pilots to avoid midair collisions. As it turns out, it’s a … Read more
