Editorial

July 2013: Over the past 20 years, there have been a number of companies that have worked on supersonic commercial aircraft. Many large organizations (like Boeing, Lockheed Martin, NASA, JAXA, etc.) have been doing basic research with the hope of building a jet in 30-50 years (2050 or so). I…

March 2013: The Concorde, one of only two supersonic commercial jets in service to date, was retired in late 2003 - after flying for 27 years. Following a farewell tour around North America and the United Kingdom, British Airways and Air France retired all 20 Concordes that were built, of…

Mar 2013: As kids, we all had crazy dreams of being firemen, astronauts, movie stars, presidents, quarterbacks, rock stars, or some other seemingly outlandish vision. Our parents and teachers supported our dreams while we were kids. They told us that anything we dreamed of doing was possible - we just…

February 2013: The Wright brothers' first flight, just over 100 years ago, was less than the length of a football field. Since then, aviation has come a long, long way. Planes can now fly from NYC to Tokyo in just 13 hours at 500+ miles per hour. The largest plane,…