On October 22, 1934, the Gourdou-Leseurre GL-813 HY took flight, marking a key chapter in French naval aviation as a catapult ...

On October 21, 1966, the Yakovlev Yak-40 made its first flight, becoming the world's first regional jet designed for operations from remote and underdeveloped airfields across the Soviet Union.

In retrospect, perhaps we should have read more into it at the time. Here was the 50th anniversary of one of the crowning ...

The former Wichita Municipal Airport terminal, built in 1935, was once one of the busiest airports in the U.S. in the early 1940s, serving as a key transcontinental layover point and hosting aviation ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In yet another tragic aviation accident, Flydubai, agovernment owned low cost UAE based airline, crashed enroute from Dubai ...

The sixties saw a number of aviation records, with A Royal Air Force Avro Vulcan making the first non-stop flight from England to Australia on June 21, 1961. Boeing rolled out its first Boeing 727 ...

Fly-in events across the country offer opportunities to see and appreciate a wide range of historically significant vintage aircraft, from early flight models to World War II warbirds. These ...

The article compiles a list of books that emphasize the personal accounts of military pilots, offering insights into the human element, courage, and psychological toll of air combat across various ...

The battle for control in the skies is often imperative to securing the overall success of a military campaign on the ground. Since World War I, we have seen belligerent forces head to head in aerial ...

She was a groundbreaking aviator who learned to fly after hearing tall tales from a pilot who’d crash-landed on her grandfather’s golf course in Warren Township, New Jersey. Later, she was one of the ...