In the 1940s, American and German helicopter manufacturers began experimenting with mounting tip jets on the ends of helicopter rotor blades.

In 1956, the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Corporation developed an inflatable airplane to drop to downed pilots to use to escape from behind enemy lines.

The Talon A-2 hypersonic aircraft successfully completed its second test flight, passing Mach 5 on 24 March 2025. During the mission, the Stratolaunch Talon A-2 was dropped by the massive Scaled ...

Provincetown-Boston Airline was founded by a crafty WWII pilot. Read its story and learn about its legacy on regional aviation.

111 of the 296 souls on board UAL Flight 232 perished as the stricken jetliner crash-landed in Sioux City, Iowa.

Artificial intelligence is proving to be just as capable, and perhaps much more so, than human pilots in fighter aircraft. The US Air Force and other government and industry partners are testing ways ...

Later this year, Polaris Dawn will launch on a private spaceflight with SpaceX from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. We caught up with commander Jared ROOK Isaacman, and went flying in the ...

Boeing's McDonnell Douglas merger seemed to reshape the company’s design philosophy and not for the better.

Avelo Airlines COO Greg Baden shares insights on leadership, innovation, and the airline’s vision for growth.

Japan Airlines and Microsoft are developing an offline AI app to make incident reporting faster and simpler than ever before.

Learn how extreme heat impacts airline operations. Discover how airlines adapt to high temperatures and how hot is too hot for airlines to operate.

Los Angeles-based Aeros Corporation is developing an electric variable buoyancy airship (eVBA) called the “Aeroscraft.” While it may look similar in shape to earlier models of blimps or dirigibles, it ...