Orbis International’s Flying Eye Hospital first took off in 1982. Since then, the accredited ophthalmology teaching hospital — complete with a surgery suite, recovery room, and classroom — has flown ...
An idealistic ophthalmologist, he came up with an ingenious way to treat blindness in far-flung places: by outfitting an airplane with an operating room. By Michael S. Rosenwald David Paton, an ...
In a quiet corner of Bangladesh's Shah Amanat International Airport, a solitary plane sits on the tarmac, the November sun reflecting off the white exterior. Rather than holding ticketed passengers, ...
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Once a dusty old cargo plane, this 1973 FedEx aircraft has been given a second life. Instead of carrying packages across continents, it now carries hope, for inside this sleek silver fuselage sits a ...