Unless you are someone who works in the aircraft industry, or enjoy's reading up on how things work, chances are you don't really think that much about aircraft parts & supplies. While we fly on an ai

There is a good chance that you'll never ever understand what individual aircraft engine parts actually do, or what all those little gauges mean in the cockpit. Or those flaps on the wings, they slow

In a truly amazing series of events, a plane clips nearby trolley cables, flips over, and crashes into the street below. In most stories, the amazing part of the tale is when it is revealed that neit

On Friday June 11th, at approximately 10:00 am Eastern Standard Time, work productivity will grind to a halt around the world. Vacation time will be taken; or, if that fails, sick time will be called

There was a joke I heard the other day from this comic named Patton Oswalt. Without repeating the naughty parts, the jist of the joke was that flying is in a plane is going in the face of everything t

What is API? API (sometimes called APIS) stands for Advanced Passenger Information and is a security measure that requires airlines to submit passenger data to the destination country before the pass

There's some good news for the people of the UK counties of Hampshire and Dorset who like their holidays abroad - their local airport is about to start flights to Malta - and at prices which will temp

Most news relating to the UK airline industry currently is focused on either the proposed expansion at Heathrow or how the recession is affecting airport traffic to and from the US and Europe. Accord