Here’s What You Need to Know: The F-89J became the Air Defense Command’s first fighter-interceptor to carry nuclear armament. The all-weather, twin-engine Northrop F-89 Scorpion was the first ...
On October 13, 1950, the Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation made its first flight. The upgraded airliner, developed to ...
Today we're looking at the Bell X-2, the first aircraft to exceed Mach 3. Designed to explore these high speeds and the use ...
Here’s What You Need To Know: In the 1950s, the United States was already hard at work experimenting with the idea of launching large missiles from submarines, in the early stages of what would become ...
The glass cockpit did not just alter the way jets are flown; it redesigned the tasks of the flight crew, ergonomics, and more ...
The Paris, the original small passenger jet that predated the JetStar, Sabreliner or Lear 23, is staged to be reborn at the hands of the MS760 Sales Corporation. The company has acquired the type ...
An 18-month NASA research effort to visualize the passenger airplanes of the future produced some ideas that at first glance appear to be out of an old 1950s aircraft magazine. Instead of exotic new ...
NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy is urging a "complete overhaul" of the FAA's outdated pilot mental health medical certification process, stating it deters pilots from seeking care due to fear of career ...
Soon after World War II ended in 1945, government officials and business leaders in Manchester began wondering, “When will the city get its municipal airport back?” The Manchester Airport had begun ...