The Akron-class airships, Akron and Macon, represented the pinnacle of rigid airship design and were the U.S. Navy's only ...

The Cessna 180 Skywagon has seen many improvements over time, which led to the call for rebuilding until today.

A helicopter putting out a wildfire may not be news, but a robotic Black Hawk helicopter seeking out one and dropping water on it while the crew sits back and watches certainly is. That's what ...

The A-1 Skyraider, originally given the designation AD Skyraider, was the result of a Navy decision in 1943 that consolidated dive-bombing and torpedo-plane missions into one kind of aircraft. Yet, ...

Perhaps the most surprising country that doesn't operate fighter jets is Mexico. Since the 1980s, the Northrop F-5E light ...

Skydweller is the world's largest unmanned solar-powered aircraft that can stay airborne for weeks, and even months, without ...

Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon used an Air Force One plane known as SAM 970. The retired jet is now a museum exhibit.

Landing on an aircraft carrier is no easy feat. Not only must the pilot navigate to a tiny landing strip out at sea, he or ...