Southwest flew the first US flight with a secondary cockpit barrier. Most of the fleet won't get one for years.

Cockpit lighting is shifting from red to low-intensity greenish-blue, which leverages the rods' sensitivity to green/blue wavelengths for low-light vision, though it must be kept dim to avoid ...

Policies for locking airline cockpit doors — reinforced throughout the industry after the terrorist hijackings on Sept. 11, 2001 — differ among countries. A French prosecutor, Brice Robin, said ...

Airplane windows might seem ordinary, but they are as much of an engineering marvel as the rest of a modern aircraft. These windows are made of three layers of material to facilitate the plane's ...