World War One Aircraft began as primitive, unarmed artillery spotters that could barely take offensive action, and ended as powerful...

Charles A. Lindbergh was born in Detroit, Michigan, on February 4, 1902, and spent most of his childhood in Little Falls, Minnesota, and...

The Rhodesian Air Force was originally formed in 1935 under the name Southern Rhodesia Staff Corps Air Unit and served as a territorial...

The Battle of Kursk in 1943, 450km south-east of Moscow, could have had a very different outcome if not for the Soviet premier Josef...

From www.wright-brothers.org "Before the Wright Brothers, no one working in aviation did anything fundamentally correct. Since the Wright...

On the 19th September 1783 Pilatre De Rozier, a scientist, launched the first hot air balloon called 'Aerostat Reveillon'. The passengers...

A pilot glanced outside his cockpit and froze. He blinked hard and looked again, hoping it was just a mirage. But his co-pilot stared at...

After Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands on 2 April 1982, the British government resolved to recapture them. The aging V-class...

Lloyd Carlton Stearman was born in Wellsford Kansas in October 1898. The son of Fred and Icie May Stearman, who came to Kansas from the...

The first turbojet fighter developed by Mikoyan-Gurevich OKB ,was the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-9, which appeared in the years immediately...