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By Thom Patterson, CNN

The largest helicopter airlift in history

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Delta debuts world's largest engine test room

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Five years later, MH370 is changing how we fly

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Brazilian aircraft takes on an American military icon

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An Area 51 spy plane and other aviation tales

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US airport opens first fully biometric terminal

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What they didn't see about Challenger's commander

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Civilian helicopter-plane hybrid goes into production

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America's biggest military airplane turns 50

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By Thom Patterson and Aaron Cooper, CNN

Pilots complained about the 737 Max before grounding

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Pink-shirted wizards of spatial relations

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Paris Air Show: Decades of crazy, cool planes

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(CNN) -- The incredible story of 100 Marine, Air Force and Air America chopper pilots who evacuated 7,000 Americans and South Vietnamese in less than 24 hours.

(CNN) -- Retired test pilots reveal why this odd jet prototype helped change aviation history and what made it so unique.

(CNN) -- The C-5 made the Pentagon more flexible. It redefined how U.S. forces and lifesaving humanitarian aid could be deployed around the world.

Atlanta (CNN) -- With 3-feet-thick walls and doors weighing hundreds of thousands of pounds, Delta Air Lines says it's the first facility of its kind built in the U.S. in 20 years.

Atlanta (CNN) -- What if you could check into your flight by simply looking at an airport screen for two seconds? Now, for some flights, you can.

(CNN) -- Reports included a brief nose-down situation, according to a federal database.

 

(CNN) -- On the fifth anniversary of the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, new technology makes a similar scenario impossible.

(CNN) -- Rich Scobee shares the pain of losing his astronaut father in the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger.

Oshkosh (CNN) -- How do these elite air traffic controllers safely wrangle 3,000 separate operations daily?

(CNN) -- This new aircraft is designed for emergency medivac and search-and-rescue operations.

Paris (CNN) -- I got a front row seat at the Paris Air Show for a Brazilian sales pitch. Sit on the flight deck as Embraer's KC-390 soars above France.

Paris (CNN) -- As one of the oldest and largest events of its kind, the Paris Air Show has attracted some unusual planes over the years.

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