Imagine flying on a jet that frequently climbed uncontrollably and had to use parachutes to stop on the runway. Welcome to ...

It was once even big business in the Soviet Union, where the Aeroflot airline operated passenger helicopters in regular service for many decades. In the mid-1960s they even started work on ...

Since the collapse of the USSR, Kazakhstan’s largest city (population 2.2 million and growing) has evolved to become the star ...

Tupolev Tu-134: Created via an official directive from Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, impressed by the quiet cabin of the ...

Although Soviet spies were definitely caught with ... Meanwhile, although supersonic airliners haven’t been flying since the Concorde retired in 2003, the Lockheed Martin X-59 Quesst supersonic ...

Russia invites airlines from Kazakhstan and other countries to operate in its domestic market to make up for capacity ...

U.S. officials are investigating whether or not the Kremlin is behind a series of attempts to place incendiary devices aboard ...

The aircraft were sent to the Soviet Union by Britain after Nazi Germany ... this aircraft in Ukraine," says Oleks Shtan, a former airline pilot who is leading the excavation.

But despite the name of its capital city remaining Ulan Bator (Red Hero), the country’s Soviet-linked past has been widely described as “forgotten.” Jonathan Addleton, who served as the U.S ...

When the Soviet empire fell apart in the 1990s, so did Czechoslovakia. ČSA was actually ahead of the curve by two years when it split into Czechoslovakian Airlines (which later became the Czech we ...

British politics today, and particularly Conservative politics, is repeating the mistakes of Soviet socialism, despite appearing its ideological opposite, argues Abby Innes in her new book. Dr Abby ...

In 1983, Korean Airlines Flight 007 was flying from Anchorage to Seoul when it was shot down by an air-to-air missile launched by a Soviet Sukhoi Su-15 fighter jet. The Boeing 747 airliner had ...