DC-10 vs MD-11 cockpit: analog tri-crew vs digital two-pilot flight deck. How automation reshaped widebody aviation philosophy.

To understand modern widebody aircraft design, we need to return to the late 1970s and early 1980s, a period when two aircraft helped shape the trajectory of the long-haul jets we see in the skies ...

United Flight 232 was cruising smoothly when a silence-shattering explosion destroyed its tail-mounted engine and severed every hydraulic line the jet depended on. Instantly, the DC-10 became ...

Fatigue fractures in the rear mounting bracket for the left engine pylon led to the crash of UPS flight 2976 departing Muhammed Ali International Airport in Louisville on November 4. That's the ...