Among the survivors of the relentless, high-altitude peril during World War II was a 23-year-old Army Air Force captain, R.C. Franklin of Mojave.

Throughout the Cold War, military planners on both sides of the Iron Curtain built weapons designed to deter the unthinkable. Yet several of those systems came dangerously close to coming active and ...

France's Farman F.224 airliner began as a luxury transport but was repurposed for troops and lost in World War II.

B Mercury, or 'Doomsday Plane,' was seen performing exercises near Fresno Yosemite International Airport on Sunday.

Strategic bombing with conventional weapons, like the United States is doing in Iran, has never forced unconditional ...

An aviation museum in Southern Utah known for its unique planes just finished restoring a 1950s Soviet fighter jet, one of several planes they use to educate the public on aviation history.

The Queen has said she is “delighted” a new book is educating children about the Second World War, adding it was “so important to ensure that the sacrifices of that generation are never forgotten”.

An NTSB preliminary report says a Challenger 650 that crashed in snow during takeoff from Bangor, Maine, appears to have exceeded the allowed anti-ice holdover time.

Fantasy of Flight in Polk City, Florida is an underrated aviation museum featuring one of the world’s largest private aircraft collections and rare planes you can explore up close.

During WWII, Dayton's airport became a major modification center for warplanes before they were sent to combat areas. Dan Patterson discusses that history and how companies like Sierra Nevada are ...

A robotic survey beneath the Mediterranean near Malta was supposed to map the seabed. Instead, its cameras captured something no one expected buried in the sand.