Various land-based fighters were converted to become seaplanes during the Second World War. A few were very impressive, like ...

Historic color footage of the Memphis Belle B-17 bomber with her famous flight crew and other B-17s during WWII. Memphis Belle is the nickname of the Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress that was one of the ...

On December 20, 1943, pilot Charlie Brown struggled to keep his heavily damaged B-17 airborne after a mission over Germany. German fighter ace Franz Stigler intercepted the crippled bomber, yet ...

MINOT AIR FORCE BASE – Minot Air Force Base carries the name of the city of Minot but a number of other names were suggested ...

The planes’ arrival came before US jets seized a sanctioned Venezuelan oil tanker now flying under a Russian flag near the ...

The Boeing Factory in Everett, Washington, is the world's largest building - spanning 98 acres – and it is so big it even ...

Almost 1,000 African Americans trained at the Army Airfield in Tuskegee, Alabama. Nearly half were sent overseas for combat duty in WW II.

December 29 has long been a day marked by significant moments that have shaped the course of history around the globe. One of ...

The 29th of December is the 80th anniversary of an air crash that took place in Bashley, to the north-west of New Milton.

Students work on glueing a frame during class at the National Aviation Education Center on Monday, Dec. 8, 2025, in Dallas. Christine Vo / Staff Photographer At Dallas Executive Airport, small planes ...

Reginald Harrison didn’t have a nickname when he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1943. But after crashing his plane a second time trying to liftoff for a mission in 1944, fellow pilots started ...

Aircrew from the 419th Flight Test Squadron at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., land a B-52 Stratofortress following its ferry flight from Boeing’s San Antonio facility on Dec. 8, 2025. The aircraft, ...