In Valdez, Alaska, the prize goes to the airplane that takes off and lands in the shortest distance.
Astronomers built some of the most precise instruments on Earth to hear them.
In 1950, Harry Truman had to decide whether to use B-29s to drop atomic bombs.
The Pan Am Experience aims to recreate a bygone era when airline food was good.
Sentinels in the sky are hunting the poachers.
Memorable flights and other adventures
Charles Lindbergh’s iconic aircraft undergoes restoration.
Navy carriers are only now breaking away from using 19th century tech to put jets in the air.
“Hook and release” is not as simple as it sounds.
The European Southern Observatory released this image today of the Medusa Nebula. The formation is being created by old star in the center, which is sloughing off its layers; our sun will have a similar end. This is the most detailed image of the nebula, taken by the Very Large Telescope in Chile.
One Piper Cub at a time
An F-16 flies over Egypt, circa 1984.
Did they skip a step in the UAV test program, or is somebody hiding something?
For an exercise called Cope North 15, aircraft and crews came from the air forces in Japan, Australia, South Korea, New Zealand, and the Philippines to work alongside the U.S. Air Force and Navy.
For 85 years, Pluto has belonged to the SF writers. Now it’s about to get real.
During World War II, British convoys flew between the U.K. and Russia to deliver supplies in grueling conditions. The National Maritime Museum featured an <a href="http://www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/past/arctic-convoys">exhibit on these missions</a> in 2011, explaining: "<em>Arctic Convoys 1941–1945</em> examines the challenges faced by the men on board, some of whom spoke of conditions so harsh that salt spray froze as it fell, waves so huge they tore at ships’ armour plating and pilots so numb with cold they had to be lifted out of their cockpits."
A former National Guard pilot recalls her dramatic scramble over Washington on September 11.
The Pegasus Barge, once completed, will be used carry the largest stage of the Space Launch System.
Dozens of warbirds flew over the Nation's Capital Friday
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