With yesterday being the 58th anniversary of the F-4 Phantom II's maiden flight, here's some interesting trivia. There is actually ...

21 MAY 1946: Seventy years ago today, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines was the first European airline postwar to launch scheduled services to the U...

18 MAY 1953: FIRST FLIGHT OF THE DOUGLAS DC-7 Douglas launched the DC-7 program at the prodding of C.R. Smith of American Airlines who ...

14 May 1954: The rollout at Boeing's Renton Field facility of the aircraft that would change jet transport, the Boeing 367-80. Bill...

In the 1930s while at Vought, aeronautical engineer Charles Zimmerman advocated a unique discoid aircraft layout that was a form of a...

If you look closely at the aft fuselage by the engine nacelles of the Cessna Citation X, it’s pinched in quite considerably to confor...

Before the start of the Second World War, Pan American Airways was the world's biggest operator of large ocean-going flying boats wit...

Beginning in 1942, Allied intelligence began a systematic analysis of the Fiesler Fi 103 flying bomb better known as the V-1. Analysis of c...

The USS Wasp in 1940 (Wikipedia) The Wasp (CV-7) was a scaled down Yorktown-class carrier and a product of the Washington Naval Treaty...

I had posted an article this past November on how a self-taught engineer, Arthur Young, got Bell Aircraft into the helicopter business . Yo...