The cockpit of the Millennium Falcon looks like pure science fiction, but its layout and feel are rooted in a very specific ...

NASHUA – “Fifi,” one of only two World War II-era B-29 bombers that still fly, was the first of four vintage aircraft to touch down at Nashua Airport in succession Monday morning in advance of a ...

The T-6 Texan slowly fired up and taxied to the start of the runway, disappearing behind the horizon. A few minutes later, it came back into view halfway off the ground as it took off for a 20-minute ...

Firsthand memories are fading fast. But even newcomers to the leafy shores of Badin Lake, about an hour northeast of Charlotte, North Carolina, soon learn that a World War II bomber rests somewhere in ...

Early aviation engineers appreciated the potential for a “flying wing” design. A flying wing, which minimizes fuselage and usually eliminates the tail, reduces many of the aerodynamic compromises ...

It was March 11, 1944 when the aircraft called "Heaven Can Wait," carrying 11 crew members went on a mission in their B-24 Bomber during World War II. The aircraft and its missing crew members would ...

A rapidly deteriorating warplane resting 90 feet below the surface of Lake Michigan could soon have a new home at a midwestern aviation history museum. The SBD Dauntless dive bomber, featured in a ...