Junkers seems to have been the first to realize that thick wings would work as well as, and in some respects better than, ...

The Boeing P-26, known as the "Peashooter," was the first all-metal monoplane fighter used by the U.S. Army Air Corps. Small, ...

Piper Aircraft's sleek new PA-24 Comanche took to the skies for the first time over Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. Designed for ...

and every single piece of today's modern aircraft has an incredible story to tell. When it comes to the Wright Flyer, the wings are everything. The Wright brothers knew that a monoplane may have ...

The monoplane, which was the first aircraft off the Vickers factory production line in Britain just eight years after the Wright brothers' first flight, was taken to Antarctica by Australian ...