FREETOWN - A one-of-a-kind hospital is taking eye care to new heights. The Flying Eye Hospital is changing the lives of its patients and providing teaching opportunities around the world. Armed with ...

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 ...

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. (KGO) -- An unusual airplane made a stop at Moffett Field Monday -- one that's mission is to prevent blindness around the world. Pilot Gary Dyson flies MD-10s every day from ...

The Pima Air and Space Museum on Monday, Nov. 7, will add to its collection of planes with the Orbis DC-10 Flying Eye Hospital. The plane is scheduled to arrive at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base on ...

From the onset, this aircraft looks unassuming and normal. Inside, however, is a fully functioning eye hospital, which flies to countries and helps train local eye care teams. The front of the plane ...

FORT WORTH, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) - It's a hospital in the air. Right now, the worlds only accredited teaching aircraft, Orbis Flying Eye Hospital is parked at Fort Worth's Alliance Airport. The ...

An inside look at the world’s only flying eye hospital has revealed the complex operation required to keep this unique aircraft in the skies to bring sight-saving care to thousands in the developing ...

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 ...

Last week, a fully functional hospital built onboard an MD-10 cargo aircraft spent several days at Fort Worth’s Alliance Airport to give Caribbean eye doctors the tools they need to better treat their ...