Expensive, yes-but what price do we place on a hundred dead passengers, a flight crew, and a modern airliner?

Wicher was the first modern airliner designed in Poland.

The safety record is comparable to other early jet airliners of its day, but was poor compared to more modern airliners.

The heyday for Ford's transport was relatively brief, lasting only until 1933 when more modern airliners began to appear.

The project completely overhauled the original DC-9 into a modern airliner.

Plug doors are used on most modern airliners, particularly for the small passenger doors.

Unfortunately, this construction is very expensive and was replaced by the mostly tube shape of modern airliners.

The Martin 2-0-2 was one of the first modern airliners.

Instead, less modern airliners were switched from international to domestic routes.

The layout of control panels in modern airliners has become largely unified across the industry.