The last US-built commercial airplane with a flight engineer was a 747-200, although a unique aircraft with a flight engineer ...

A flight engineer (FE) is a member of the flight crew who is responsible for monitoring and operating the aircraft's complex systems. Their role is to monitor and manage the aircraft's engines and ...

As an aeronautics grad student at MIT in the 2010s, Brian Yutko was obsessed. He’d work deep into the night mining “black box” data and destination codes buried in antiquated computer languages like ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Boeing 747 is one of the most popular exhibits at the Delta Flight Museum in Atlanta. This particular plane was the first Boeing ...

The thrust-link issue that forced Boeing to ground its 777-9 test fleet last year was caused by a narrow airflow gap that led to vibration and failure, according to newly available information. Boeing ...

Today, aircraft typically only require two flight crew: the pilot and the co-pilot. But this was not always the case. Before the development of more sophisticated microprocessors and computers, ...