For thousands of years, humans have dreamed of taking to the skies. The quest has led from kite flying in ancient China to hydrogen-powered hot-air balloons in 18th-century France to contemporary ...

The Supermarine Type 510 made history on November 8, 1950, becoming the first swept-wing jet to take off from and land aboard ...

Meet Tom Malek, an Atlanta scale model builder preserving aviation history through meticulous research, accurate aircraft ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This collection consists of duplicate ...

On Sunday, October 25, a Jetstar aircraft took off from the new Western Sydney International Airport, bound for the Gold ...

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 ...

Aviation stunts, defined as daring feats for attention, have a rich history that predates social media and modern aviation authorities like the FAA. Early 20th-century pilots and performers engaged in ...

Modern aircraft are testaments to engineering progress since the dawn of commercial aviation last century. However, there are some puzzling circumstances of planes that have gone missing. With ...

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 ...

Each pin is a miniature work of art, bearing the brand logo and rich with symbolism in engraved detail. We would not have believed that so much history could be stuffed into so small a package, but ...