Lee Cross

Assistant Editor - Airliner World. Contributor and former deputy editor at Airways.

Latest Articles

2/27/1995: Denver Stapleton Airport's Final Flight

2/25/1920: World's First Air Traffic Control Tower

2/24/1957: World's First Commercial Trans-polar Flight

2/23/1934: Lockheed Model 10 Electra Maiden Flight

Propfan Power: Evolution of the Unducted Fan Engine

2/22/1993: McDonnell Douglas MD-90 Maiden Flight

2/21/1971: ANA Spreads Its International Wings

2/19/1982: Maiden Flight of the Boeing 757

​​2/18/1956: Finnair Flies to Moscow after World War II

2/17/2005: Central Japan International Airport Opens

2/16/2019: UK Regional Carrier flybmi Ends Ops

2/15/1946: Maiden Flight of the Douglas DC-6

Legacy Articles

12/03/1985: The ATR-42 Enters Service With Air Littoral

12/06/1957: Maiden Flight of the Lockheed L-188 Electra

12/02/1939: New York's LaGuardia Airport Begins Operations

12/07/2011: Virgin Australia Absorbes V Australia

11/30/1986: Maiden Flight of the Fokker 100

11/27/1992: Dan-Air Merges into British Airways

11/29/1953: American Airlines Introduces the Douglas DC-7

11/26/2003: Concorde Makes Her Last Flight

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