What started as an innocent mail carrier, the Heinkel He 70 Blitz, quickly transformed into a high-speed terror in the skies, ...

Consolidated's most famous aircraft in World War II were the B-24 Liberator and the PBY Catalina patrol plane. However, ...

Many of the machines created during World War II were engineered with one goal in mind: to survive anything. Eight decades ...

The German jet bomber, Ju 287, was an audacious WWII concept with forward-swept wings and an unconventional design. Its ...

Pilots should remember and celebrate the aviation legacy of December 17 because of the Wright brothers, DC-3, and EAA.

Today, aircraft wings are increasingly designed to prioritize stealth characteristics over raw speed—giving them a smooth, unbroken connection to the aircraft’s main fuselage.

Built in 1941, Diamond Lil was one of the first Liberators to enter combat. B-24s were used in every theater of the war. Diamond Lil was saved from the scrapyard to become one of the first aircraft to ...

The United States has used several different insignia on its military aircraft throughout its aviation history, and some have ...

Dubiski Career High School students are helping restore a World War II-era airplane at the Henry B. Tippie National Aviation ...

The X-1’s fuselage was designed to resemble a .50 caliber bullet—one of the only shapes known to have stable flight at ...

The core difference in business strategy is that Pratt & Whitney targeted the high-volume, fast-growing narrowbody market ...