From the first fragile biplane to stealth bombers that defy radar, humanity's quest to conquer the skies has produced some ...

The XB-41 Liberator tried to turn a B-24 bomber into a heavily armed escort gunship, but weight and speed limits doomed the ...

Research and data obtained during the testing of these and other experimental aircraft would lead to today’s B-2 Spirit bomber and beyond. American concerns that Great Britain might fall to Axis ...

There’s something almost otherworldly about the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber. With its sharp bat-wing design and smooth, radar-evading skin, it looks like it flew straight out of a science fiction film.

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(CNN) — When, or if, the weird-looking Scaled Composites Stratolaunch takes off from Mojave, California, as expected in 2019, it will have smashed a record that's remained unbroken for 71 years. No ...

Had that been all, it would have been nothing worse than an obscure mediocrity, but Blackburn had also made it extremely ...

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After a mysterious and lengthy disappearance, the historic patent documents for the Wright Brothers' groundbreaking flying machine have finally resurfaced and are now at home in the National Archives ...