The first successful flight took off from North Carolina on December 17, 1903, when the Wright brothers developed the Wright ...

Blue Origin, the commercial space flight company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, made history with 37th flight of its New ...

The path to flight in modern birds was full of forks, twists and dead ends. Erin Malsbury Tens of millions of years of bird evolution guided some of the most important elements of human-powered flight ...

On this day in 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright were ordinary men, not household names. For seven years, the brothers had been working toward a grand, larger-than-life invention, beginning in 1896 with ...

Shinji Suzuki met Takuo Toda in 1999, atop Mt. Yonami in the southern city of Jinseki-Kogen, Japan. Toda, the chairman of the Japan Origami Airplane Association, was there to launch a large paper ...

The American Airpower Museum (AAM) in Farmingdale, New York, continues its popular “C-47 D-Day Living History Flight Experience” with four 2025 dates to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of ...

The history of aviation has seen many strange and shocking plane crashes but there are few that are as mysterious as the fate of Helios Airways Flight 522. It became known as the "Greek Ghost Flight" ...