aviation

The A350 landed in Toulouse 24 hours and 24 minutes after leaving Melbourne as airline plans direct London service Qantas completed what is believed to be the longest-ever commercial flight when its Airbus jet landed in Toulouse on Tuesday after a flight from Melbourne lasting 24 hours and 24 minutes. The flight, which triggered a surge in online tracking, is part of the airline’s Project Sunrise…

Purpose Operating a high-performance fifth-generation fighter jet is a potential stressor in which hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis dynamics may reflect the intensity of and adaptation to the stressor. The purpose of this study was to evaluate HPA axis activity in fighter pilots and explore whether indices of activity correlated with subjective indices of stress. Methods We studied HPA a…

Oil tankers may be stuck behind strait of Hormuz, but holding the Iata AGM in Brazil defies warnings of impending shortages Nothing says jet fuel crisis, as one prospective attender put it, like flying everyone to Rio de Janeiro. Aviation leaders will converge in Brazil this weekend for the Iata AGM, the annual global airline summit, with the industry still, for the most part, looking resolutely …

Christy Grant
1/31/1976

The History of Aviation Archives, a world-class aeronautical archive and library, is added to UT Dallas’ Special Collections.