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 ...

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, ...

Technical and oversight problems left two astronauts aboard the International Space Station for months longer than had been ...

Boeing’s last 787-8 Dreamliner test aircraft ‘ZA004’ has retired to the Arizona desert after performing more than 670 test flights over 16 years of service.

The Boeing Company’s President and CEO Kelly Ortberg, spent much of Wednesday morning on Capitol Hill, in the other Washington. Ortberg testified before the Senate’s Commerce, Science and ...

U.S. Air Force and international partners are looking to extend the service life of the transport aircraft.

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 ...