Dan Bubb

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Aviation Historian and Associate Professor in Residence, UNLV Honors College

Coordinator of Academic Affairs

Expertise: Commercial Aviation, Airport History, World History, U.S. History, American Western History

Biography

Daniel "Dan" Bubb — a former airline pilot — is an expert on commercial aviation and airport history in the American West. His other research areas include United States, American Western, and world history.

An associate professor in residence with the UNLV Honors College, Bubb also serves as the college's coordinator of academic affairs.

In 2012, he published his first book, Landing in Las Vegas: Commercial Aviation and the Making of a Tourist City (University of Nevada Press). Currently, Bubb is researching and writing a second book that examines the role airlines and airports play in connecting Western American cities with the world.

Bubb serves as the deputy director of the Nevada Aerospace Hall of Fame.

Education

Ph.D., History, University of Missouri, Kansas City
Ph.D., Political Science, University of Missouri, Kansas City
M.A., History, UNLV

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The National News Desk

Boeing’s run of losses, production delays and financial struggles has taken another turn for the worse over the last week as the iconic American manufacturer announced it would lay off 10% of its workforce and rescinded an offer to its largest union that is on a strike that is costing the company tens of millions each day it continues.

Travel + Leisure

If you're reading this, you've probably been on your fair share of flights. And while you may understand the science behind how planes fly, there's still something magical about the idea of soaring through the air at over 400 miles an hour. One more thing that seems to work like magic? Airplane toilets.

La Nacion

A Turkish Airlines pilot died in flight Wednesday after suffering a heart attack, which forced the plane to make an emergency landing in New York, the airline said. The plane, which left Seattle on the west coast of the United States on Tuesday night, was headed to the Turkish city of Istanbul, Turkish Airlines spokesman Yahya Ustun told X.

Late last year, Boeing employee Craig Garriott says a 4-ton satellite inside an El Segundo plant fell after engineers failed to properly secure a clamp. No one was injured by the collapse of the $1 billion-plus satellite that happened over a weekend, but it could have been fatal if workers were present, Garriott claims.