Trying to keep up with science is, I conclude after watching openmouthed at an air show, like flying an F-18 at 700 miles an hour just 200 feet above the ground. The landscape is coming at you so fast ...

Passenger aircraft are rather uniform, for the most part, with the familiar white color scheme of commercial planes and so on. Lots of travelers scarcely give their exteriors a second thought. There ...

Most travelers probably didn't give much thought to the security of airliner cockpits before the 9/11 attacks, and since then it might seem odd to some that cockpit doors are often left wide open ...