The FAA recommends putting phones in airplane mode during take off. The truth is, the only problem with not using it is ...

What control actually turns your airplane? Aileron? Rudder? The answer may surprise you. Your airplane needs a certain minimum amount of energy, call it airspeed, to lift off the ground and fly. If ...

Aerodynamics explains how airplanes fly through the interplay of four fundamental forces: lift, weight, thrust, and drag. Lift opposes gravity, thrust propels forward, and drag resists motion. Pilots ...

As a bell sounded in the cockpit, three UPS pilots tried to control a cargo flight that crashed this week in Louisville, ...