Soviet engineer Robert Bartini envisioned a colossal Ekranoplan that could travel over the ocean at 600 km/h while carrying fighter jets. This ground-effect aircraft would operate just meters above ...

From revolutionary engine technology to folding wings, Airbus is focusing on fuel efficiency for the next generation of plane.

Boeing will build what ... It will fly with a squadron of drones that will mostly autonomously support the mission and presumably protect the crewed aircraft. The plane itself will have new ...

These days, most helicopters seem to follow similar design trends. However, over the years, different experimental designs ...

Journalists accurately reported that the führer was a “Little Man” whom the whole world was laughing at. It didn’t matter.

build and fly their own kites while exploring the physics of flight and ancient Japanese art, Toki said. “It’s very important. Kite flying is the same as airplane flying,” Toki told WTOP.

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For years, my friend’s father asked me to recount his childhood escape from the Nazis. Why did it take me this long?

With its four towers, the massive Alcázar of Toledo commands attention from across the city. These towers were the focal ...

The 100-seater planes were one of the most advanced aircraft ever to fly passengers around the world with just 20 built over a 15-year period. But in July 2000 an Air France Concorde en route from ...

Down in Ballydehob, 100 kilometres away, Kevin Ireland was expecting me and it was already midday. He did not drive and had no phone, although he told me I could ring Jack O’Connor at his bookshop in ...