Aviation
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The risks travelers and pilots take
What we know, and don't about the crash that killed five people yesterday and strewed wreckage near an Interstate
"Anything with an On-Off switch must now be OFF," but readers disagree on exactly why
Coming soon in this space
How a Philippine airline ensures that passengers are awake during the safety briefing
The many reasons why the Turks have screening lines outside the airport as well as inside
Here's a surprise: readers are not delighted with every detail of current airline policies
Flight attendants and engineers differ about in-flight risk
A pilot argues that the ban on electronic devices make sense; many others disagree
Think 'security theater' stops at the TSA check line? Unt-uh!
A Lufthansa pilot shows how a difficult maneuver should be done
A plane stays aloft for 11 and a half hours, using no fuel at all. The story of how it was done.
The latest twists in the airline-security business
Getting in the Thanksgiving spirit, Italian-aviation style
Look! Up in the sky! It's one plane flying right next to another...
See the world, by small plane
Naturalists, economists, and another beautiful creature in flight
The kind of thing the Wright brothers might have studied, if they had had slo-mo cameras
A prize for an airplane that can be twice as efficient as today's jet liners
'For amber waves of grain ... and rice'