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Bishoftu International Airport
Bishoftu International Airport is a greenfield airport under construction near Bishoftu, Ethiopia, led by Ethiopian Airlines Group to relieve capacity constraints at Addis Ababa Bole International Airport.
Black Sunday (1977 film)
Black Sunday is a 1977 American thriller directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern, and Marthe Keller, about a plot to bomb the Super Bowl.
Blackburn Buccaneer
The Blackburn Buccaneer, later the Hawker Siddeley Buccaneer, was a British twin-engine, carrier-based strike aircraft serving the Royal Navy from 1962 and the RAF until 1994.
Blackburn Skua
The Blackburn Skua was a British two-seat carrier-based fighter and dive-bomber of the Fleet Air Arm, first flown in 1937, known for sinking the German cruiser Königsberg at Bergen in April 1940.
Bleed air
Bleed air, also called engine bleed air, is compressed air drawn from a jet engine's compressor to power aircraft systems like cabin pressurization, air conditioning, and wing anti-icing.
Blended wing body
The blended wing body (BWB), also called the hybrid wing body, is an aircraft configuration blending wings into a wide, flat, tailless fuselage that offers lower fuel burn and noise.
Blimp
A blimp is a non-rigid airship, an engine-driven lighter-than-air aircraft whose envelope holds its shape through internal gas pressure alone, without a frame, distinguishing it from rigid Zeppelins.
Bloch MB.150
The Bloch MB.150 was a French all-metal fighter developed in the mid-1930s by Avions Marcel Bloch, whose production version, the MB.152, served in the Battle of France.
Blohm & Voss BV 141
The Blohm & Voss BV 141 was a German World War II reconnaissance aircraft with a fully asymmetric layout, its glazed crew gondola set beside the engine.
Blohm & Voss BV 222 Wiking
The Blohm & Voss BV 222 Wiking was a large six-engined German flying boat of the Second World War, the largest to reach operational status, with 13 built.
Blohm & Voss BV 238
The Blohm & Voss BV 238 was a German six-engine flying boat of World War II, the largest built during the war; only one prototype flew before it was destroyed.
Blood on the Risers
"Blood on the Risers" is an unofficial U.S. Army Airborne folk song, sung to "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," telling of a rookie paratrooper's fatal parachute failure.
Blood Red Sky
Blood Red Sky is a 2021 German-British action horror film directed by Peter Thorwarth, starring Peri Baumeister, Dominic Purcell, and Roland Møller, released on Netflix in July 2021.
Blue Air
Blue Air, also known as Blue Air Transport, was a Romanian low-cost airline based in Bucharest that operated from 2004 until it suspended flights in September 2022.
Blue Angels
The Blue Angels, the U.S. Navy's flight demonstration team formed in 1946 on Admiral Chester Nimitz's initiative, perform in F/A-18 Super Hornets from Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida.
Blue Impulse (ブルーインパルス)
Blue Impulse (ブルーインパルス) is the aerobatic demonstration team of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force, flying six Kawasaki T-4 jets from Matsushima Base and known for drawing the Olympic rings at the 1964 and 2021 Tokyo Olympics.
BOAC Flight 777
BOAC Flight 777 was a KLM-operated civilian flight from Lisbon to Bristol shot down by German Ju 88s over the Bay of Biscay in 1943, killing all 17 aboard.
BOAC Flight 911
BOAC Flight 911 was a British Overseas Airways Corporation Boeing 707 that broke up in severe turbulence near Mount Fuji, Japan, on 5 March 1966, killing all 124 aboard.
Boarding pass
A boarding pass, also called a boarding card, is the printed or electronic document an airline issues at check-in, authorizing access to security and the aircraft for a specific flight.
Bob Hoover
Bob Hoover, full name Robert Anderson Hoover, was an American fighter and test pilot who escaped a POW camp in a stolen Fw 190 and flew chase for Chuck Yeager in 1947.
Bockscar
Bockscar, sometimes written Bock's Car, is the US Army Air Forces B-29 that dropped the "Fat Man" atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945.
Boeing
Boeing is an American aerospace manufacturer founded by William Boeing in 1916, known for commercial jetliners like the 737 and 747 and for defense and space systems.
Boeing 247
The Boeing 247 was a twin-engine all-metal airliner first flown in 1933 and widely regarded as the first modern airliner, though only 75 were built before the Douglas DC-2 overtook it.
Boeing 2707
The Boeing 2707, also known as the Boeing SST, was an American supersonic airliner designed for Mach 2.7 and canceled by Congress in 1971 before any prototype was finished.
Boeing 307 Stratoliner
The Boeing 307 Stratoliner was a four-engine American airliner, the first with a pressurized fuselage, built in the late 1930s; only ten were made before World War II.
Boeing 314 Clipper
The Boeing 314 Clipper was a long-range, four-engine flying boat built by Boeing from 1938 to 1941 for Pan Am, which used it to open the first transatlantic passenger service.
Boeing 367-80
The Boeing 367-80, known as the Dash 80, was a jet transport prototype first flown in 1954, developed with Boeing's own money into the 707 airliner and KC-135 tanker.
Boeing 377 Stratocruiser
The Boeing 377 Stratocruiser was a large double-deck, long-range piston-engined airliner Boeing built after World War II, known as the most luxurious airliner of its era.
Boeing 707
The Boeing 707, also called the Boeing Jet Intercontinental, is a four-engine swept-wing jet airliner that entered service with Pan Am in 1958, ushering in the Jet Age.
Boeing 717
The Boeing 717, developed by McDonnell Douglas as the MD-95, is a 100- to 134-seat twin-engine airliner produced by Boeing in Long Beach, California, from 1999 to 2006.