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• Boeing sells 10 big planes

  May 19, 2011 1:08 PM

  CHICAGO (AP) - Boeing Co. says Lufthansa Cargo will buy five of its 777s, and LAN Airlines of Chile is buying five more 767s. Both planes are among Boeing's larger aircraft. The freighter version of the 777 has a list price of $269 million, making the order from Lufthansa... more »

• AFA impact: three quarters of a billion dollars

  October 22, 2010 12:42 PM

  Academic institutions like the Air Force Academy can bring big bucks into the city, but did you ever wonder how much money is at stake? Well, on Thursday afternoon at the Antlers Hilton Hotel in Downtown Colorado Springs, Air Force Academy Superintendent Lieutenant General Michael Gould talked numbers. The... more »

• Americans aboard airline 'miracle' crash

  August 16, 2010 11:14 AM

  A Boeing 737 jetliner with 131 passengers aboard crashed on landing and broke into three pieces at a Colombian island in the Caribbean early Monday. The region's governor said it was a miracle that only one person died. Colombian Air Force Col. David Barrero said officials were investigating reports... more »

• NTSB: Pilot had 4 seconds to prevent Denver accident

  July 13, 2010 2:05 PM

  A federal safety panel says an airliner ran off a runway in Denver because the flight's captain failed to use the plane's rudder to correct its direction during a strong crosswind. The National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday that the captain stopped using the right rudder about four seconds... more »

• Job of the Day: Boeing Colorado Springs

  July 12, 2010 11:00 AM

  If you woke up this morning with a sense of dread as you anticipated a new work week--it's time to find a new job. Boeing currently has an opening in Colorado Springs for a Lifecycle Support Technologist. The deadline to apply is July 15. Starting pay is not... more »

• Boeing tests new jet in Colorado Springs

  May 18, 2010 6:32 PM

  A new plane from Boeing made its debut in Colorado Springs this afternoon. Boeing took a test flight with its new 787 Dreamliner jet Tuesday afternoon at the Colorado Springs airport. The plane alternated landings and touch and go's for a couple of hours. Boeing says the 787 is built... more »

• Boeing plans to fix problem in new 787

  May 18, 2010 12:30 PM

  Boeing says it needs to fix a design flaw in the tail section of its new 787, but that it still expects to start delivering the plane by the end of this year. Testing showed that the outer skin of the plane and the bracket-like piece of metal that... more »

• Lessons from the Space Station

  May 7, 2010 4:09 PM

  Sixth grade students at the Jack Swigert Aerospace Academy in Colorado Springs are spending the remainder of the school year studying the International Space Station. Next week, the students will interview scientists and engineers familiar with the station as part of their project. Two engineers from Boeing and two... more »

• FAA orders new inspections for Boeing 737s

  April 26, 2010 4:53 PM

  Aviation regulators are ordering a new round of inspections for some Boeing 737s to catch a flaw that can cause a potentially dangerous vibration. The Federal Aviation Administration says a part can come loose in the plane's elevator, the surface on the plane's tail that points the nose up... more »

• Boeing says 787 passes wing, fuselage stress tests

  April 7, 2010 5:18 PM

  Boeing Co. says the stress tests for its new 787 jetliner's wing and fuselage went as planned. On March 28, workers at Boeing's Everett, Wash., plant bent the wing of a special test 787 by 150 percent of the most extreme forces it would experience in flight - about... more »

• FAA proposes $1.5M fine against Northwest Airlines

  March 23, 2010 11:04 AM

  Federal regulators are proposing a fine of almost $1.5 million against Northwest Airlines because it didn't inspect wires near the cockpit windows on some of its planes. The proposed civil penalty has its roots in a 1990 order by the Federal Aviation Administration to inspect the wires in the... more »

• Northrop Grumman drops out of tanker competition

  March 8, 2010 5:23 PM

  Northrop Grumman Corp. says it won't compete against Boeing Co. for a $35 billion contract to build refueling tankers for the Air Force because it doesn't think it can win. Northrop's chief executive officer and president, Wes Bush, said Monday that the Pentagon guidelines for the program favor Boeing's... more »

• Part of plane falls from the sky

  February 5, 2010 1:55 PM

  A piece of a cargo plane fell from the sky and landed in a mall parking lot in Miami. No one was injured when the large panel fell from a Boeing 747 atlas cargo plane. The parking lot was mostly empty when the piece fell. No vehicles or structures... more »

• Boeing's 787 jetliner makes first test flight

  December 15, 2009 3:04 PM

  A new jetliner that's carrying a lot of Boeing's hopes for the future has taken off for a test flight over Washington state. Some 25,000 people braved the cold and damp at Paine Field in Everett, Wash., to watch Boeing's new 787 passenger jet take off for the first time.... more »

• Northrop will drop out of tanker competition

  December 1, 2009 5:35 PM

  Defense company Northrop Grumman says it will drop out of the running for a major Air Force tanker project valued at $35 billion unless the government changes its request for bids. Northrop Grumman President and Chief Operating Officer Wes Bush wrote to the Pentagon saying the company cannot accept the... more »