Monthly Archives: September 2015

Quick Facts:   Retired American Airlines planes are sent to New Mexico to be torn down Spare parts are refurbished and sent back to Tulsa The MD-80 planes will be phased out by the end of 2017   All this … Continue reading →

LAS VEGAS (AP) Jet engine parts found on the Las Vegas runway where a British Airways flight aborted takeoff as the engine burst into flames indicate a rare catastrophic failure, experts said Thursday as investigators released preliminary findings and began … Continue reading →

In the alphabet soup of airplane names, a BT-67 is not a DC-3. The plane the “Band of Brothers” jumped out of at D-Day was a C-47. Seventy years and lots of civilian modifications later, James Bond brought a DC-3 … Continue reading →

Ford Motor Co. reached a new supply deal with Alcoa Inc. that would expand its use of aluminum in the car maker’s F-150 pickup truck and other vehicles, a leg up for the lightweight metal in an industry that has … Continue reading →

Jet engine parts found on the Las Vegas runway where a British Airways flight aborted takeoff as the engine burst into flames indicate a rare catastrophic failure, experts said Thursday as investigators released preliminary findings and began analyzing flight data … Continue reading →