Modern passenger airliners are essentially tubes-with-wings, they just happen to be tubes that are stuffed full with fancy electronics. Some of the most important of these are related to keeping the ...

As commercial passenger jets fly far above altitudes where people can breathe, all aircraft are pressurized. However, aircraft pressurization is still a compromise as they are pressurized not at sea ...

What is it that makes the Boeing 787 so advanced?

Commercial aviation is magical. You are cruising along in a pressurized metal tube at 35,000 feet, and while the outside temperature – at a crisp -66 degrees Fahrenheit – is cold enough to freeze you ...

Allow me to provide our point of view for readers of The Times regarding “A Skeptic Under Pressure” (Sept. 27), which stated “there is no manual override system” for the Airbus A380 cabin ...

An emergency descent, a sudden loss of cabin pressure and a cockpit crew in distress ended not in disaster but in a fully automated landing at a Colorado airport, marking what aviation officials ...