Airlines soon abandoned it for jet airliners. A groundbreaking aircraft, the spacious and innovative Boeing 377 Stratocruiser promised to change the world of passenger aviation. However ...

he repeatedly refers to the plane as the “Stratocruiser,” which was actually the appellation of the rather luxurious Boeing 377 civilian airliner derivative of the C-97, as opposed to the ...

The omission of these redundancies ultimately led to the 2008 crash of a B-2 bomber, and the more recent fatal crashes of Boeing’s 737 MAX airliners. Also, unlike tubular fuselages, blended wing ...