Aerospace & Air Transport Industries

The Federal Aviation Administration''s (FAA) Air Traffic Organization (ATO) provides air traffic control (ATC) services within U.S. and certain int...

Each day, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) controls the take-offs, landings, and flights of over 50,000 aircrafts. To accomplish this miss...

The Airport Improvement Program (AIP) provides federal grants to airports for airport development and planning. The airports participating in the A...

Past communicable diseases, such as the recent Ebola epidemic, have resulted in many deaths and highlight the potential economic cost of disruption...

International flights bound for the United States continue to be targets of terrorist activity, as demonstrated by the October 2010 discovery of ex...

In 2014, the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported that the National Aeronautics and Space Administrations (NASA) major pro...

Airlines have imposed a variety of fees on a range of optional services, such as checked and carry-on bags; meals; blankets; early boarding; and se...

The passenger airline industry in the United States has gone through significant changes since deregulation in 1978. In domestic operations, airlin...

The story of aviation is, above all, the story of success. Few, if any, industries could have equalled the astounding pace of the development of fl...

John Tyes job at British Airways was supposed to be only temporary, a way for him to pass the summer before starting university. Instead, it would ...

'We have decided we must have the 747.' - Bert Ritchie, Qantas Chief Executive, 1967From its first Qantas flight in 1971, the Boeing 747 flew milli...

Preserved aircraft can be found around the world, showcasing paint schemes and names that may have been lost to history otherwise. Focusing on the ...

This book is an everything-included approach to understanding drones, creating an organization around using unmanned aircraft, and outlining the pr...

The successful launches of SpaceShipOne raised the possibility of an emerging U.S. commercial space tourism industry that would make human space tr...

This book examines aviation security with a focus on the background and policy options for screening and securing air cargo. The air cargo system i...

Takeoffs, landings, and movement around the surface areas of airports (the terminal area) are critical to the safe and efficient movement of air tr...

This book series AIR was born as a result of Sam Chui's passion and devotion to aviation. Air3, the third in the Air Series, maintains Sam Chui's p...

Discover the daring life story and astonishing adventures of Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown - Britain's greatest-ever pilotMARITIME MEDIA AWARDS BEST ...

As a barefoot lad in the Outer Hebrides, Bill Innes dreamed the impossible dream of becoming a pilot and this book tells how that dream came to pas...

This is a story that has never been told before, pulling back the Iron Curtain to reveal the lives of the jet airliners of the Soviet Union, full o...

The highlights of the epic journey around the world of the Breitling DC-3. Exactly seventy-seven years to the day since its first flight, the Brei...

Flying Tiger Memories tells the story of one of the world's most legendary airlines, through the eyewitness stories and memories of its employees, ...

This is a story of truly heroic deeds during the fall of Singapore, taking munitions and military personnel up and refugees back, of escape and sub...

In August 1961, Iranian Airways and Persian Air Services merged to form United Iranian Airlines. A few months later, however, Iran National Airline...

With over two million YouTube subscribers, Sam Chui is one of the world's best-known travel and aviation personalities, known for his million-hit v...