Today, Lufthansa remains the world's largest operator of the passenger version of the Boeing 747, using the 747-8I on its ...

Germany produced three outstanding modern airliners in the interwar period: the Junkers Ju 52, Junkers Ju 86 and Focke-Wulf ...

Flown by NASA X-59 lead pilot Nils Larson, the much-anticipated first flight of the Lockheed Martin-built aircraft began at 8 ...

The Lotus UAS design in some ways resembles features of the newly revealed Lockheed Martin Project Vectis, with a long, slender fuselage positioned forward of the leading edges of the wings, capped by ...

The tendency to pitch up violently, or enter an uncontrollable dive at the stall led to pilots flying the approach into ...

NASA's fleet of Space Shuttles could survive challenging solar conditions, but needed a boost to get around on Earth. Here's ...

Born in wartime isolation, the Saab 21 was a twin-boom, pusher-prop experiment that pushed Swedish aviation into the jet age. Its designer secretly obtained Messerschmitt blueprints, leading to Europe ...

Two Delta Air Lines jets collided on the runway at New York City’s LaGuardia Airport shortly before 10 p.m. on Wednesday. The airline announced in a statement that Endeavor Flight 5155, scheduled to ...

On a chilly morning in the 1930s, a handful of passengers climbed aboard a brand-new airplane called the Douglas DC-3. The cabin smelled faintly of leather seats and gasoline, the engines roared ...

In the early 1980s, before the Berlin Wall came down, the Soviet Union was on a quest to develop a fifth-generation aircraft that could dominate the skies and outmatch every American fighter in the ...

While Airbus expects its next narrowbody jet will have a traditional tube-and-wing configuration, it has not abandoned the idea of an eventual blended-wing-body (BWB) design for a larger jet. That is ...