Rare pictures of the first flight expedition over Everest, 1933
Originally the idea for a flight expedition over Mount Everest was proposed in 1…
Originally the idea for a flight expedition over Mount Everest was proposed in 1…
A Spanish engineer and aeronautical pioneer, Juan de la Cierva, developed the or…
Observation was an incredibly important role for aerial warfare in World War I. …
The R100 airship was built as part of a British government programme to develop …
This is the story behind the famous picture of the test pilot George Aird ejecte…
The events of 1942 were crucial in the way that World War Two played out. The fi…
The largest wooden airplane ever constructed, and flown only one time, the H-4 H…
On April 9, 1940, Germany simultaneously invaded Norway and occupied Denmark, an…
Starting with the Invasion of Sicily in July of 1943, and culminating in the Jun…
Life was once simpler. There was only one class for passengers on airline flight…
The history of airships begins, like the history of hot air balloons, in France.…
The Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor began just before 8 a.m. local time S…
On January 14th, 1975, Major Peter Makowicka, aged 33, was on a training mission…
In the summer and fall of 1940, German and British air forces clashed in the ski…
In the 1920s and 1930s airship mooring masts were built in many countries. A moo…
Aerial warfare was by no means a First World War invention. Balloons had already b…
On December 17, 1903, Orville Wright piloted the first powered airplane 20 feet ab…
A Japanese plane caught squarely by antiaircraft fire leaves a trail of smoke an…
Manfred von Richthofen earned widespread fame as a World War I ace fighter pilot…
It all began in May of 1987. Mathias Rust was fed up with the Cold War tension bet…