Did you know the Blériot XI was one of the first military training aircraft? Originally a pioneering aircraft in France, it ...

Portholme, the island meadow between Huntingdon and Godmanchester, was the site of Huntingdon Racecourse until 1896 when the course moved to its present site near Brampton. Portholme’s 300 acres with ...

One of the Air Force’s last retired C-130H Hercules planes made a spectacular touchdown at a disused Christchurch air base ...

The 1,400-square-foot mural chronicles the roots of aviation on Long Island from 1908-1927 and was painted at the old Roosevelt Field aviation complex.

Fethiye was renamed from Meğri to Fethiye which means “The place of Fethi,” to honour the first Turkish airman to die in ...

After all, this led to the advent of fixed-wing aircraft, with such vessels accounting for the vast majority of today's air traffic. However, this milestone was predated by a considerable period of ...

In 1914 Watt left Egypt and started work with the Bleriot aircraft factory in Paris. On 2 August 1914, the day France declared war on Germany, he offered his flying services and his plane to the ...

When war broke out, he proved himself an effective fighter pilot and squadron leader: he was credited as the first pilot to bring down an enemy aircraft on English soil in February 1940. Though he was ...