When we think about World War I, images of muddy trenches and barbed wire usually come to mind. High above the chaos, a ...

Where: The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. Entry is through the Airway Road gate. When: 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 27, and Sunday, Sept. 28 Cost ...

In one short decade, the airplane grew from an ancient dream into the reality of a machine that would shape the future. “Early Flight” will explore how, between the first flights at Kitty Hawk and the ...

The Great War was a fascinating time for airplanes – the Wright brothers had just recently invented the airplane in 1903, and militaries found out mounting machine guns (only after figuring out how ...

During WWI, airplanes were still a very new technology. Planes that could fly for extended periods of time were only a few years old, and people were still trying to figure out how they would work in ...

These starkly beautiful images show a little known, but hugely important, landmark in British aviation history. Masterpieces of engineering, these wind tunnels at the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE ...

Pilot Andrew Carter painstakingly restores and replicates planes from World War I — and even though he is an experienced flyer, he says controlling the aircraft in the skies poses a challenge. It is ...