On May 26, 1952, the tiny Stits SA-2A Sky Baby first flew, becoming one of the smallest manned aircraft ever built.

On May 24, 1969, the SIAI-Marchetti SM.1019 first flew, introducing a turboprop-powered STOL liaison aircraft for the Italian ...

The U.S. military-industrial complex has developed hundreds of planes since the start of World War II. As aviation engineers pushed the boundaries of known science and engineering, they occasionally ...

Military power used to be limited by distance, but that stopped being true when long-range strike aircraft entered the ...

Editors’ note: This story originally was published Sept. 25, 2019. Boeing’s Renton plant has seen a lot of aviation history come and go in its nearly 80 years of operation. Long before the recent ...

Eugene Ely's daring and fortitude paid off, and he eventually ushered in the age of U.S. naval aviation by successfully taking off from a U.S. Navy warship in Virginia on Nov. 14, 1910. Eugene Ely did ...

From Amelia Earhart to D.B. Cooper, many theories surround these long-standing aviation mysteries, without any conclusions made.

Military aviation has often advanced through controversial and uncertain beginnings, where new concepts challenge established ...

Military aviation history is presented as a crucial narrative of national development, technological innovation, and human daring, often driven by high stakes and personal courage. Pilot memoirs and ...

The Hagerstown Aviation Museum will unveil a new painting celebrating Fairchild Aircraft's history. The oil painting, "An Enduring Legacy of Flight," was created by Larry Selman, according to a ...