Air Travel

Favorite Commercial: British Airways “To Fly. To Serve” Television Ad

Fri Dec 16, 2011 08:43 am Cardinal News

Remarkable television commercial from British Airways showing progress of air travel and aviation history from biplanes to modern jet aircraft. British Airways Television Ad Transcript Those first young men, the pioneers, the aviators building super […]

Amazing Breitling Jet Man Yves Rossy Flies with Fighter Jets Over Swiss Alps

Tue Nov 29, 2011 08:09 am Cardinal News

Video shows ‘Jet Man’ Yves Rossy exiting Breitling helicopter and joining flight formation with two fighter jets. Amazing pictures from Switzerland show where “jetman” Yves Rossy gave this incredible flying display, using a tailor-made jet […]

LOT Belly Landing, Gear Up: Raw Video: Plane Lands in Poland Wheels Up

Tue Nov 1, 2011 01:04 pm Cardinal News

A LOT Polish Airlines Boeing 767 from Newark, New Jersey, carrying 230 passengers made an emergency landing in Warsaw after its landing gear failed to open. No one was injured. A Boeing 767 Polish LOT […]

World War II Aircraft Still Flying: B-17 Flying Fortress, B-24 Liberator, B-29 Superfortress and P-51 Mustang

Sat Oct 8, 2011 07:25 pm Cardinal News

One of the last remaining B17 bombers from World War II is still being flown and even includes features similar to what it had back in 1941. In late July in Chicago World War II […]

VIDEO: All Nippon Airways Takes Off As First Boeing 787 Customer

Wed Sep 28, 2011 10:00 am Cardinal News

Signed, sealed and delivered, the first Boeing 787 took off from Everett, Washington on Tuesday in the hands of launch customer All Nippon Airways. The plane climbed into an overcast sky, tipped its wings and […]

VIDEO: FedEx Boeing 777F in Action; Only Non-Stop Freighter Aircraft to the Middle East

Tue Sep 27, 2011 07:57 pm Cardinal News

The freighter features General Electric GE90 engines, as well as extended and raked wingtips. FedEx is the aircraft operator with the most Boeing 777F aircraft — standing at 12. The next leading aircraft operator is […]

No Airplane Crash at O’Hare During Day Saturday; There Was a Disaster Drill

Sat Sep 17, 2011 08:44 pm Cardinal News

Chicago firefighters and some suburban firefighters participated in a drill during the day on Saturday at O’Hare International Airport. Elk Grove Village Fire Department participated in the drill, and about 100 volunteers acted as victims […]

New Google Flight Search Released Tuesday Sept. 13

Sat Sep 17, 2011 05:53 pm Cardinal News

Flight search is a feature that helps you explore air travel options for a number of cities, and plan your trip with just a few clicks of the mouse. Google released Flight Search on Tuesday. […]

Re-Living 1963: New TV Series “PAN AM” Previewed at Woodfield Mall; Stewardesses, Not Flight Attendants

Fri Sep 2, 2011 05:23 pm Cardinal News

Woodfield Mall was the site of a replica of a PAN AM cabin complete with character 1963-era stewardesses on Friday, September 2, 2011. “Passengers” at the mall were greeted by Pan Am stewardesses and were […]

Black Helicopter Reported Flying Low Over Ivy Hill School and Lake Arlington

Mon Aug 29, 2011 01:06 pm Cardinal News

A few people reported a black helicopter flying low over Lake Arlington and near Ivy School, just west of Lake Arlington. The incident was reported to police, and police checked the area, but the helicopter […]

Raw Video: Crash of Bryan Jensen’s Beast at KC Aviation Expo, Kansas City

Sun Aug 21, 2011 05:53 pm Cardinal News

Stunt pilot Bryan Jensen was killed in fiery crash during an air show on Saturday after his plane appeared unable to get out of a downward spiral and plummeted nose-first into the ground, witnesses and […]

F-16 Video, South Barrington Flyer, Myrtle Rose, Interview After Her Flight into Restricted Airspace

Sat Aug 6, 2011 11:14 am Cardinal News

INTERVIEW: Myrtle Rose was taking a flight in the northwest suburbs of Chicago when the 75-year-old pilot looked out her cockpit window to see two F-16 fighter jets. When she landed, police told her she […]

VIDEO: Witnesses on Ibiza, Spain Beach and Passengers on Jet2 Boeing 737 Witness Flames Shooting from Jet Engine

Tue Jul 26, 2011 07:54 pm Cardinal News

Video of flames shooting from Jet2.com Limited Boeing 737-800 from a person enjoying a day at the beach in Ibiza, Spain. A Jet2 Airline Boeing 737-800 performing flight LS-170 from Ibiza, Spain to Manchester, England […]

New Air Traffic Control System at Crossroads

Tue Jul 5, 2011 10:33 pm Cards News

The FAA is creating a new air traffic system that officials say will be as revolutionary for civil aviation as was the advent of radar decades ago. But the program is at a crossroads. Traffic […]

Prototype Solar Impulse Airplane Flies Day or Night, Power Exclusively by Sunlight

Tue Jun 28, 2011 10:57 am Cardinal News

One of the main attractions at the 2011 Paris Air Show was the Solar Impulse, a prototype aircraft powered exclusively by sunlight. Established in 1909, the Paris Air Show (Salon International de l’Aéronautique et de […]

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