Most modern aircraft are flown by two pilots, but a select few legacy machines in the United States still rely on a third, highly specialized crew member: the flight engineer. This critical role, once ...

Delta Air Lines flight 219 experienced an electrical fire forward of the flight engineer's station while en route from San Francisco to Honolulu. The fire was caused by electrical arcing between the ...

Concorde flight engineer Warren Hazelby gets chills recalling his first supersonic flight from London to New York in 2002. Hazelby remembers stepping onto the flight deck and taking it all in. The ...