On this day in aviation history, February 21, 1919, the Thomas-Morse MB-3 fighter made its first flight. This aircraft was ...

Humans don't have hollow bones like birds do, so how big would our wings have to be to lift us off the ground?

Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago ...

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

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

The story of Learjet begins with William Powell Lear, an American inventor and entrepreneur with a passion for aviation. In 1960, Lear founded the Swiss American Aviation Corporation (SAAC) in ...

Flight is the dream of children, the struggle of students, the joy of pilots, and the cherished memory of those who must hang up their wings ... of the discipline’s history as a means of ...

The last Martin Mars flying boat made its final flight last ... known as jet-assisted take-off bottles equipped under the wings. These small rockets provided extra thrust to help them get airborne ...

Black and all-women flyers were cut from Air Force basic training after a Trump order ending diversity training.