The Hawker Siddeley Trident was Britain’s answer to short-haul jet travel, but delays, politics, and poor choices crippled its future. Across the Atlantic, Boeing’s 727 seized the market, leaving the ...

In the wake of the tragic 1985 British Airtours Boeing 737 accident at Manchester in which 55 people died following an engine fire on take-off, Cranfield University undertook a detailed study into ...

England’s troubled airplane-making industry is long since inured to insult, but last week it suffered one of the unkindest blows of all. The country’s two biggest airlines, BOAC and BEA, both ...

The development of the de Havilland Comet and the Boeing 707 herald the end of an era for propeller-driven airliners such as the Douglas DC-3. Jetliner safety enhancements, including the automatic ...

People from all over the globe came to pay their respects in Staines as the 50th anniversary of the Trident plane crash was marked. A service acknowledging the tragic incident, which saw 118 die less ...