Boeing Co.

Southwest, BWI aim for international flights

2013-06-08 12:08:00

Southwest Airlines and BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport are talking about adding overseas flights, perhaps as early as 2015. "International is going to grow at BWI, and it's going to grow with Southwest," said Paul Wiedefeld, the airport's executive...

F-35's manufacturers put civilians in 'cockpit'

2013-05-05 00:00:00

Rep. Donna F. Edwards slipped into the F-35 cockpit — a stationary demonstration model — and gave the jet a simulated spin, trying out the controls, shooting down enemy aircraft over the Chesapeake Bay and executing a celebratory roll. "This...

Little action to stop defense cuts, despite warnings

2013-02-18 10:04:00

Defense officials and their allies in Congress have done their best to create a sense of crisis about impending budget cuts, but their warnings have failed to produce any visible result. Instead, partisan divisions have hardened over how to avoid the...

All of Howard County is a stage in new theater season

2012-09-28 15:39:00

If you're not quite ready to head indoors for the fall, the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company has just the show for you. Think of it as a way to partake of an early offering in the new theater season in Howard County while watching that show under the stars....

Margaret B. Tyler, customer service rep

2012-08-19 13:01:42

Margaret B. Tyler, a former Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. customer service representative, died Aug. 5 from complications of dementia at Cadia Rehabilitation in Millsboro, Del. She was 96. The former Margaret Beulah Knochel was born in Baltimore and...

Maryland sees a future in drones

2012-08-13 15:41:00

In a cavernous production facility at AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems in Hunt Valley, workers assemble remote-control planes that help U.S. forces identify enemy targets. At the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, researchers...

BWI plans second direct connection to Europe

2011-10-03 16:13:00

For the first time in more than a decade, air travelers will be able to board a scheduled commercial jet at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport next summer and fly to continental Europe. BWI officials and Condor Airlines...

What's orange, wet and Duff Goldman's nemesis? Sunny-D

2012-04-23 04:59:00

We're not going to tell anyone how to run their households, but if anyone ever has Duff Goldman over, here's a hint on what not to pour: Sunny-D. Baltimore's Ace of Cakes really, really, really seems to hate the orange-flavored drink. Like really. It...

Maryland braces for Memorial Day travelers

2012-05-21 19:07:00

State transportation officials hope you'll do a lot of sightseeing this Memorial Day weekend. Just not on the Bay Bridge. Travelers headed to the Eastern Shore for the first time since last summer might be surprised. For one thing, the toll has risen...

Southwest takes off with new jet

2012-04-11 14:06:00

After two years of comfort-testing its new jets on human bodies of all shapes and sizes, Southwest Airlines was ready to let 153 of its most important bodies — paying customers — aboard Wednesday morning at BWI Marshall Airport. The maiden...

Southwest to launch new, and improved, jets this month

2012-03-30 21:25:00

Longer and more comfortable, and able to make flights to the Caribbean, Mexico and Hawaii, the first of Southwest Airlines' new Boeing 737-800 jets is set to arrive in Baltimore next week. The new cabins are the company's first redesign in a decade, with...

Havre de Grace, Aberdeen high schools get AP grant

2012-05-01 11:46:47

Harford County Public Schools is "very pleased and very proud" that Aberdeen and Havre de Grace high schools are the first schools in the county to be involved in the National Math and Science Initiative's grant program for military families, school...

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2013-05-24 10:47:37

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Police officers leave a Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 777 aircraft on the tarmac at Stansted Airport, southern England.

2013-05-24 00:00:00

Airline stewardesses pose in front of a United Air Lines' Boeing transport in San Francisco, Calif., in this May 15, 1930 file photo. Ellen Church, standing in the left side of the doorway, is considered the first stewardess after a Boeing executive created the job for her.

2013-05-16 00:00:00