The first plane to break the sound barrier in level flight was a rocket plane – the Bell X-1 in 1948. The North American X-15 broke many speed and altitude records in the 1960s and pioneered …

The essential components of an airplane are a wing system to sustain it in flight, tail surfaces to stabilize the wings, movable surfaces to control the attitude of the plane in flight, and a power …

5 days ago · The DeKalb County Fire Rescue Department confirmed to Channel 2 Action News that a plane has crashed behind a home in Doraville.

Dec 26, 2025 · A 15th person has died as a result of the UPS plane crash in Kentucky in November. Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg announced the updated death toll on Thursday. …

Dec 25, 2025 · A plane from Mexico was on a medical mission on Monday when it crashed into Galveston Bay, and two men on the water that day helped save two lives.

If a flight takes a plane across several countries, it passes through various ACCs, each monitored by different air traffic controllers who give instructions to the pilot as needed.

Dec 26, 2025 · The death toll from a UPS cargo plane crash in Louisville, Kentucky, has risen to 15 after a man injured in the incident died weeks later on Christmas Day, officials said.

Jun 2, 2025 · Three people have been rescued from the Atlantic Ocean in the dark after their plane went down several miles offshore off the coast of Florida, officials said.

The 2023 action thriller Plane stars Gerard Butler, Mike Colter, and Tony Goldwyn. Directed by Jean-François Richet (Blood Father), the film was written by Charles Cumming (The Day of …

plane applies to any real or imaginary flat surface in which a straight line between any two points on it lies wholly within that surface.