Ever since the Lilienthal brothers bird-like gliders of the 19th Century, the nation of Germany has contributed a great deal to aviation. From rocket fighters to pulse-jets and even airships over ...

Discover how to build a homemade rubber band-powered paper airplane in this easy and engaging tutorial. We’ll guide you step-by-step as you craft the frame with skewers, add aerodynamic paper wings, ...

Other than spacecraft, aircraft are the fastest vehicles, leaving cars and bikes for dust. We take a look at the ten fastest planes ever flown. Though some uncrewed aircraft (like the X-43) have flown ...

Growing up near the airport, Sylvia Mejia-Bivens remembers wanting to be close to the planes. For the past 10 years, she's gotten to be one.

Researchers have experimentally recreated another fundamental theoretical model from quantum physics, which goes back to the Nobel Prize laureate Werner Heisenberg. The basis for the successful ...

India is laying the groundwork to build its own commercial aircraft, Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu told NDTV at Davos, confirming partnerships with Russia and also hinting at new flight ...

A Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport worker who played its mascot, Amelia the Airplane, has retired from the role. Why the cheery character made a difference.

Many airframers carry the family name of the founder—Beech, Bell, Boeing among them—but within a generation or two, no descendants are involved whatsoever in the plane-making enterprise. There have ...

The Pontiac Firebird is a pony car legend. Introduced by General Motors in 1967, it was half of GM's one-two punch response to Ford's iconic Mustang (the other being the Chevrolet Camaro). The ...

The Trump administration’s first deadly strike on an alleged drug smuggling boat, in early September, was conducted by a secretive military aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane, multiple ...