Most modern aircraft are flown by two pilots, but a select few legacy machines in the United States still rely on a third, highly specialized crew member: the flight engineer. This critical role, once ...

Today, aircraft typically only require two flight crew: the pilot and the co-pilot. But this was not always the case. Before the development of more sophisticated microprocessors and computers, ...

It started as an insignificant wildcat walkout of a few flight engineers on overseas airliners in New York. Before it ended in an inconclusive truce six days later, it had staggered U.S. airlines with ...

Concorde flight engineer Warren Hazelby gets chills recalling his first supersonic flight from London to New York in 2002. Hazelby remembers stepping onto the flight deck and taking it all in. The ...