Dream Chaser – Spaceship Landing Zone in Huntsville
For decades, space vehicles have been designed and built in Alabama, but launched and landed elsewhere, usually in Florida or California. But a new...
Corridor X – Lynchpin I-22 Nears Completion on Project
More than a year ago, the Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) announced the final few miles of future Interstate 22’s connection to Birmingham would...
New Flyer Plant – City Bus Maker is a Retooled Continental Jewel
The New Flyer Industries plant in Anniston is one of the larger manufacturers in Alabama that most people in the state probably have never...
Alabama State Port: Port as State Economic Plan
The $600 million Airbus final assembly line in Mobile will move its first fuselage units through the Alabama State Port in the spring of...
World’s Largest Rocket: The U.S. is Returning to Deep Space
Huntsville-born Virginia Barnes is head of the team that is building the world’s largest rocket, one expected to launch astronauts to Mars in about...
Carpenter Technology: New Star in Alabama Aerospace Cluster
Outside of the aeronautics, do you know what the Wright Brothers, the Spirit of St. Louis and every U.S. Space program project have in...
Construction and Building Planes
The massive hangar now under construction at Mobile’s Brookley Aeroplex – like the mythical phoenix – is rising from ashes of dreams.
Seven years ago,...
Triple Shift into Record Production
It is 3 p.m. at Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama (HMMA) in Montgomery and Ashley Frye, vice president of the production division, has just returned...
Engine Plant Climbs Toyota Mountain
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Alabama in Huntsville is on course to become the largest Toyota engine plant in the world, aiming to produce 744, 000...
Automotive Success from Big Cities in Alabama to Small Towns
They make car seats, car doors, braking systems, headlights, gaskets and more. If it’s a component of a modern automobile, odds are somebody’s making...
