Lee Cross

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

Latest Articles

3/10/2004: Hong Kong's HK Express is Founded

3/06/1970: BEA Airtours Operates Maiden Flight

3/05/1923: Sikorsky Aero Engineering Corporation Is Founded

3/03/2012: Continental, United Airlines Merger Completed

3/02/1969: Concorde Takes to the Skies

3/01/1986: Trans World Airlines, Ozark Announce Merger

2/28/2008: Boston-Maine Airways Grounded

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

Legacy Articles

1/01/1922: World's First Airline Uniforms

12/31/2006: BWIA Becomes Caribbean Airlines

10/20/2015: Congo Airways Starts Operations

10/24/2012: WOW Air Acquires Rival Iceland Express

10/14/2010: French CCM Rebrands as Air Corsica

10/12/2009: World's First Revenue Gas-to-liquid Fuel Flight

10/13/1930: Junkers Ju 52 Maiden Flight

10/16/1978: Lockheed L-1011-500 Tristar's Maiden Flight

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