The De Havilland DH.83 Fox Moth G-ACEJ offered a fascinating glimpse into the early days of passenger aviation. Originally ...

EcoMotors is concocting an engine with two pistons in one honking cylinder. It harks back to what plane engineers tinkered with in the 1930s. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, ...

The U.S. Navy spent much of the early 1930s betting on one of the most ambitious concepts in military aviation history: giant rigid airships that could launch and recover fighter planes in midair, ...

Ten classic American aircraft from the 1930s, '40s and '50s take to the skies in the form of postage as the U.S. Postal Service dedicates the American Advances in Aviation commemorative stamp sheet at ...

Today we largely take international air travel for granted. Every major city in the world is little more than a hop, skip, and jump away. But what was it actually like to fly halfway around the world ...

Stipa-Caproni is an Italian experimental aircraft designed by Luigi Stipa and built by Gianni Caproni in 1932. Its barrel-shape fuselage, enclosing the engine and propeller, served as inspiration of ...

York looks to have missed out on a new attraction in Piccadilly that would have celebrated a unique 1930s aircraft factory and an extraordinary ‘age of adventure’. STEPHEN LEWIS reports on the ‘missed ...

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