When pilot Fred Rime took off over the Dallas skyline, ... Mr. Rime, 65, is a "freight dog." He flies the same nightly run every Monday through Thursday, regardless of the weather.

I was a commercial pilot for a small, domestic freight airline. Pilots who do this type of flying are referred to as “freight dogs” because sometimes a day for us can seem like seven years.

After more than 30 years and 25,000 hours of flying as a freight dog, this pilot knew the unexpected and unplanned would happen. Frank Perfetti · Tuesday, March 14, 2023 ...

Let’s say you’re the captain of a Boeing 747 out of Anchorage for Chicago. Except no self-respecting cargo pilot calls himself—or, rarely, herself—anything so leaden, so utterly earthbound ...

CHICAGO - As Tawn Makela grapples with the controls of the weather-ragged Learjet, she hears the wind rustle pieces of the American economy.

A 61-year-old Wheat Ridge pilot who routinely criss-crossed the globe in cargo and charter planes, was one of three men killed in a runway plane crash at Shanghai’s Pudong International Airport.