On December 3, 1945, Lieutenant-Commander Eric Melrose Brown made aviation history by launching and landing a de Havilland Sea Vampire aboard HMS Ocean, becoming the first pilot to operate a jet from ...

The F-117 Nighthawk did something no American combat jet had done before: it turned near-invisibility into an operational ...

The 727 wins ‘cool points’ for its tri-jet configuration, three engines handsomely placed below a T-tail. The T-tail, with ...

A new heritage trail is being created to showcase the history of one of Britain's most important aircraft factories. The Gloster Aircraft Company (GAC) assembled around 10,000 planes on the site at ...

De Havilland Aircraft Museum, England (CNN) — Today, jet-powered plane travel is easy to take for granted. We’re used to that surge of speed along the runway that pins us to our seats, those moments ...

When we think about the dawn of jet-powered warfare, the name Messerschmitt Me 262 often gets top billing. But the story starts a bit earlier than you might think. The true roots of the jet age trace ...

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