The incredible industrial might of American aircraft manufacturers helped turn the war against the Axis.

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So, learn all about the innovative spirit of North Carolina's people and how their pride and ambition led to a bold legacy today. Why North Carolina remains the 'Cradle of Flight' It is no coincidence ...

Humanity achieved flight a mere decade before the outset of World War I in 1914, and pioneers did not take long to press the revolutionary new science into service. The first fighter pilots fought in ...

The De Havilland Comet’s first flight in 1952 marked the dawn of the jet-airliner era and transformed commercial aviation.

A short while ago, we told the story of the Boeing 757, pound-for-pound the most overpowered twin-jet passenger airliner of the jet age of aviation. It was and still is the kind of jet that can ...

Aircraft have a long and storied history of transporting goods that dates back to the earliest days of airmail. Though much like with trains and large trucks, designers quickly noted that when it ...

Joseph Demelfi, a Lehigh Valley Railroad foreman, was on the job when he witnessed a sight he would never forget north of the Schuylkill-Columbia County border on a June afternoon in 1948. As a ...

GREEN – The fuselage was fairly cramped. The cabin was a bit noisy, and the ride was bumpy. The in-flight meal was whatever food you brought aboard in your pockets. And there was no flight attendant ...

Let's take a minute or two to talk about airliners. If you haven't been in the loop, Boeing finished production on the last 747 quad-engined double-decker jetliner. As a metaphorical book-end on the ...