The Supermarine Southampton was a flying boat that would become one of the most successful of its time, with 83 different ...

The last Martin JRM Mars flying boat, Philippine Mars, retired after a career of almost 80 years, with its final flight taking the plane to Arizona for ...

The Red Tails’ most significant mission was the escort of B-17 bombers on a bombing run over Berlin in March 1945. They flew ...

It can attain altitudes of 45,100 feet, speeds of up to 630 mph, and a range of up to 6,800 nautical miles – if no refueling ...

On January 11, 1943, Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first sitting president to travel on official business by airplane. He flew to a WWII strategy meeting with Winston Churchill at Casablanca in ...

Nicknamed the "flying Oval Office," modern Air Force One planes are equipped with everything the president might need.

Being a test pilot isn’t always the healthiest business in the world. [In the 1950s, test pilots were being killed at the ...

On this day in aviation history, February 14, 1955, the first flight of a key progenitor that led to the MiG-21, the ...

The single-engine F-35, from an Indian perspective, has to penetrate contested airspaces of our adversaries in a standalone mode, and cannot be part of any integrated offensive mission package of ...

Only one (or possibly two) of the missing bombs was fully assembled at the time it was lost. The total number of confirmed ...

Amelia Earhart, already a world renowned pilot for being the first woman to perform a transatlantic crossing in an airplane, ...