From the days of heavily armed piston fighters fighting in the skies over the Pacific to aircraft that would dominate the ...

On this day in aviation history, 116 years ago (August 2, 1909), the United States government purchased its first military aircraft-the 1909 Wright Military Flyer. The U.S. Army Signal Corps acquired ...

Flailing in the dark: aeronautics before the 19th century -- Starts and stops: aeronautical progress in the 19th century -- The real beginning: the Wright Flyer -- Seat-of- the-pants design: the era ...

For all the advances aviation has made over the past century, one challenge has never gone away: weather. Storms, turbulence, icing, wind shear, and rapidly changing conditions continue to shape every ...