The MD-11 was a failure for McDonnell Douglas, which merged with Boeing in 1997. It was also a failure for most passenger ...

The Korean War featured the first jets the U.S. military flew in combat, but not everything was new and shiny. Some aircraft ...

The solution for Concorde was an elegant delta- or triangular-shaped wing reminiscent of 1950s military aircraft. It had few moveable parts compared to the wing of a subsonic jet, but the sleek ...

Pilots looking for a stylish, speedy four-place retractable that is, as they say, a lot of aircraft for the money, should ...

So they explained the aircraft sightings by saying they were "natural phenomena" and "high-altitude weather research." The testing of the U-2 ended in the late 1950s; but, Area 51 has continued to ...

And the aircraft has to be able to tilt its rotors or wings in mid-air while still managing to stay aloft. Even so, in the 1950s, engineers realized that it might actually be possible to build a ...