On April 28, 1961, the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21F soared into history when test pilot Colonel Georgy…
On April 27, 1952, the Soviet Union’s formidable Tupolev Tu-16 Badger made its first flight,…
The Buckeye remains as a historic trainer that played an a vital role in training…
The last of the American biplane airliners.
Designed by incarcerated Soviet engineers, the Tu-2 would go on to have one of the…
The world's first all-metal combat airplane.
One of the most successful fighters of WWII, the P-38 Lightning had a bumpy start…
The first purely jet-powered aircraft flown off of American aircraft carriers, and the first jet…
Originally built as a biplane, the Stinson Detroiter launched one of the largest aviation companies…
Although never deployed into operational service, the YF-93 was still useful as a concept, and…
The Blériot XI remains one of the most important aircraft in the history of aviation,…
A lesser known transatlantic flight by the Dornier flying boat from Spain to Argentina
The two inaugural flights for Concorde with Air France and British Airways were hailed as…
More than eight decades later, the Brazilian Air Force is the larges in the Southern…
The unpowered first flight of the plane that broke the sound barrier.
American aviator Eugene Ely became the first pilot to land an airplane on a ship…
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