Aviation History

General aviation airplanes have historically served the public’s needs for personal and business travel, as well as for sport and recreational aviation. […]

The Gulf War was an anomaly compared to other wars of the second half of the 20th century. […]

In 1930, Boeing created the revolutionary Monomail, which made traditional biplane construction a design of the past. […]

The second decade of the twentieth century marked the beginning of the U.S. aircraft industry. Growth was slow though and companies remained small until the United States started supporting the needs generated by World War I. […]

Today, members of this generation are again answering a call, this time to restore a piece of the history they lived, as volunteers restoring the last B-29 bomber. […]

The concept of an international space station can be traced back to the mid-1800s when U.S. clergyman Edward Everett Hale wrote of a polar-orbiting satellite, built from 12 million bricks. […]

Dreams of spaceflight and its conquest are as old as humankind itself. These dreams were transformed into reality on April 12, 1961, when 27-year-old Flight Major Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin of the Soviet Union became the first human to venture into space. […]

The F-16 introduced many successful technologies. Fly-by-wire and relaxed static stability gave the F-16 a quantum leap in air combat capability over other fighters when it was introduced and this technology still makes the aircraft an unmatched competitor today. […]

All eyes on the ground are fixated on the vintage World War II Stearman as it plummets from the
sky, spiraling downward toward certain disaster. […]

Imagine stunt pilots and air racers whizzing through the sky at breakneck speeds for your entertainment. […]