Aviation Explained Through Data

There is a specific kind of hunger that only happens at 35,000 feet. You boarded at 6am without breakfast, the drink cart is somewhere behind row 40, the only thing for sale is a shrink-wrapped cheese plate at an unreasonable price, and you still have three hours to go. Everyone has been there. The fix...

The Boeing 757-200 registered N757AF sat in a fenced-off corner of Stewart International Airport in New York for nearly three years. Weeds grew around the landing gear. The black fuselage with its gold “TRUMP” lettering gathered grime. While it waited, its owner was being flown around the world on a different aircraft: a Boeing VC-25A,...

A home office should do more than hold a desk and a monitor. For anyone who lives and breathes aviation, it is a chance to build a workspace that tells a story: the romance of the open sky, the precision of a cockpit, the golden age of flight. Aviation design is inherently purposeful, and that...

A birthday party with an aviation theme has something most themes do not: a genuine sense of occasion. Airports, aircraft, and the act of flight are already tied to milestones, departures, and arrivals, which makes them a natural fit for a celebration marking another year. Whether the birthday belongs to a two-year-old who waves at...

Eastern Airlines Flight 401 departed John F. Kennedy International Airport on the evening of December 29, 1972, bound for Miami International Airport. The aircraft was a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, one of the most technologically advanced widebody jets in commercial service, delivered to Eastern Airlines less than a year earlier. Captain Robert Loft, a veteran with...

United Airlines Flight 173 departed Denver on the afternoon of December 28, 1978, bound for Portland, Oregon. The aircraft was a McDonnell Douglas DC-8-61, registration N8082U, carrying 181 passengers and a crew of eight under the command of Captain Malburn McBroom, a veteran pilot with more than 27,000 flight hours. First Officer Rodrick Beebe and...