Across the United States military, some of the most decisive combat missions are still flown by aircraft that first took to the skies when slide rules and vacuum tubes were standard tools. America’s ...

The B-52H has flown for over six decades because no aircraft matches its payload, range, and flexibility. Most Cold War-era platforms survived by adapting to new missions rather than becoming obsolete ...

Perhaps the most important aircraft in the history of commercial aviation was the Douglas DC-3. This year will mark the 90 th anniversary of the first commercial flight of the DC-3. On June 25, 1936, ...