Neatorama presents a guest post from actor, comedi...  ...x-World War II fighter pilot, to try and land the airplane in a heavy fog. The Zuckers and Abrahams watched...  ...Paramount was soon reached. The movie, now called Airplane !, would be made on a rock-bottom low budget of $3...  ...h a brilliant idea, a b...

It's something you think about every time you get on an airline flight. What if the door opens while we're flying? What if something were to affect the structural integrity of the plane? Our paranoid thoughts go to that...

We've mentioned a few times that the rules and regulations we have today normally originate from some horrible precedent. The many rules and regulations regarding air travel come together to make flying the safest mode o...

Once upon a time, when people smoked everywhere, you could smoke on airline flights. The back of the plane was designated as a smoking section, but then so was the First Class section in the front. And everyone breathed...

Photo: Olga Ushnitskaya Rudolph may be taking a break from flying after a busy Christmas season, but his reindeer brethren have to get around. So they fly commercial. The Siberian Tim...

Professor Fukanō is going to circumnavigate the g...  ...kanō is going to circumnavigate the globe in his airplane , but his tank doesn't hold enough fuel for the en...

Boss Battle by Chet PhillipsEverybody loves to watch movies, but only cinephiles study the shots, memorize the lines and see their favorite films as old friends. To them a movie is more than just a plot and a bunch of fa...

The following is a list of some of the more notorious air travel tragedies we've seen, from the book Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Attack of the Factoids.Wreckage of Baron von Richthofen's Fokker triplane.THE RED BA...

You used to hear about chunks of blue sewage falli...  ...d to hear about chunks of blue sewage falling off airplanes and crashing through roofs or even hitting someon...

Quick! Think of an entertaining pilot from a movie...  ...rom a movie. That’s right, Ted Stryker from Airplane ! He was an exceptional flyer, even though he&rsqu...