June 2010 NOT ALL THAT long ago even the best full-motion jet simulators had very basic visual presentations that were restricted to nothing more than a view straight ahead through the windshield.

I've always been a lover of WW II airplanes. I used to be able to rattle off all kinds of engine, airspeed and range figures for just about everything that flew in every theatre. I know the difference ...

The pilot, 65, had 33,000 hours. He had retired six years earlier as a 777 captain after a 36-year career in airline flying. He was a CFI-I and ATP with ratings in a slew of Boeing and Lockheed types, ...

The “Scud Stud” is giving up journalism for politics. Arthur Kent, a Canadian whose live NBC reports on Iraq’s Scud missile attacks on Saudi Arabia during the 1991 Gulf War made him a celebrity, is ...