The Korean War featured the first jets the U.S. military flew in combat, but not everything was new and shiny. Some aircraft ...

Some airplanes are graceful, beautiful machines that soar effortlessly through the sky. Others, not so much. Which airplanes ...

In the early 1940s, Lockheed engineers designed what could have been the world’s first operational jet fighter—the L-133 Starjet. With an advanced axial-flow jet engine, swept-wing design, and a speed ...

Unlike other Cold War aircraft, built with aggressively swept wings, the A-1 featured perfectly ... Yet, war planners still found a use for the prop-driven A-1, which served frequently, and ...

From aerial crop dusting pioneer to global megacarrier – marking 100 years of operations of Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines.

Since its first flight in December 2009, the jet remains in production as the smallest member of the Gulfstream production ...

For example, wings that are swept back and held flush with the fuselage of an aircraft are wonderful for enabling speed: most supersonic aircraft feature a fixed swept wing design. But while speed ...

Sikorsky on Monday detailed recent successful demonstrations with its “rotor blown wing” unmanned aircraft system (UAS), ...

Like everything else around us, aviation is changing too, and it does so at a rapid pace. From new ways to power the planes to new and more efficient shapes of airplanes' bodies, the biggest ...

as an engine beneath the right wing burned and black smoke surrounded the aircraft. They lined up and got to the ground using slides and ladders brought over by groundcrews, according to the FAA ...

as an engine beneath the right wing burned and black smoke surrounded the aircraft. They lined up and got to the ground using slides and ladders brought over by groundcrews, according to the FAA ...