In a few days, one of the more remarkable symphony concerts will take place in Mannheim, Germany.

Along with the Orchestra of Baden-Baden and Freiburg and the SWR Vocal Ensemble of Stuttgart eighty automobiles will contribute their signature sounds to an original musical score created...

I'm not sure how I feel about the videos recently posted on Gizmodo in which three young men travel through 11 countries in 44 days and sum it all up in a three one-minute-long videos.

I started smiling at the first episode, titled MOVE, as brief but beautiful...

Sometimes being a mom helps me make sense of the world, because even when the world isn't sensible, it at least is familiar. Take, for example, spoiled children. We've all seen these children, pitching a fit at the grocery store because mommy and daddy won't purchase that tempting something...

Just because airline pilots are prone to complain, doesn't mean that sometimes they don't have a legitimate beef.  When it comes to the merger of American Airlines and TWA 10 years ago, a federal jury has determined that the TWA

Earlier this week Jim Hall, former chairman of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, wrote an opinion piece for the Times expressing alarm over the location of garbage transfer station very near New York's LaGuardia Airport. One does not need to be an expert in aviation...

The Southwest Airlines captain whose big mouth rant of frustration over the lack of suitable flight attendants to date during a trip in March has made him the latest example of declining professionalism among airline pilots. But really, is all the fury about his piloting or his...

Kudos to ABC News for reporting on the problem of using handheld devices during flight. In his report, Brian Ross took viewers into the EMI lab at Boeing, where engineer David Carson showed levels of electromagnetic interference from a Blackberry, an iPhone and an iPad that even the...

The term "play ball" is a metaphor for all sorts of transactions outside of sports. But it was the refusal of United Airlines to "play ball" with Oklahoma City that brought the the Thunder to Wednesday night's NBA playoff match with the Dallas Mavericks....

How excited do you think these guys are viewing the most significant break-through in the investigation into the crash of Air France Flight 447? On the monitors, accident investigators are watching the end of a very long and very expensive phase; recovering the black boxes from the plane that...

I have this image in my brain and I can't shake it. There's a man seated at a giant pipe organ, he's wearing morning coat with tails and he is pounding furiously. His fingers fly across all three levels of the keyboard. He's pumping the pedals with his feet, turning...

There was a real and a metaphorical cry of "Play Ball" in Sendai, Japan yesterday.

At the heavily damaged Sendai Airport in the heart of the earthquake-hit region, Japan Airlines Flight 4721 marked the new opening of the airport to commercial service at 8:00 this morning. Two hundred miles...

LISBON - The Fairey single engine float plane is displayed as if taking off over the Tejo River. But when Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral

The air traffic control profession just can't get a break and this was supposed to be such a happy time for the National Air Traffic Controllers Association. Every Spring, the union holds its annual awards ceremony a splashy event- - this year in Las Vegas -- in which

Like passengers on the emergency evacuation chute, money is sliding from the pocketbooks of travelers to the bottom lines of airlines, as described in my story in today's New York Times. The article was not intended to exacerbate an already volatile relationship between air travelers and airlines, but I suspect that will...

It's like a scene from those old movies where monsters invade Tokyo, only these photos are real. Tokyo residents watch with horror as a construction crane sways "like a big metronome" over the Tokyo station.

So what would you think if you were the B777 pilot who's radio communication with air traffic control was interrupted by a passenger's cell phone call?  Or if you were the captain in command of a B747 that unexpectedly lost autopilot after takeoff and did not get it back until...

Knowing I have little tolerance for grumbling airline passengers who don't yet get it that there's no such thing as a free lunch, my dear friend Ira Rimson sent a very funny link to me...