Here’s What You Need to Know: The F-89J became the Air Defense Command’s first fighter-interceptor to carry nuclear armament. The all-weather, twin-engine Northrop F-89 Scorpion was the first ...

The Nord 500 was an ambitious French VTOL concept built around rotating ducted fans, promising helicopter-style vertical lift with much higher forward speed and a future full of fast military and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 0 intro gettyimages 1091369928 t2 The age of piston-engine air travel still exists today, but its golden era was the 1920s to ...

Here’s What You Need To Know: In the 1950s, the United States was already hard at work experimenting with the idea of launching large missiles from submarines, in the early stages of what would become ...

When we think about the Golden Age of Flying–the glory years of Pan Am and the Concorde in the 1950s and 1960s, before flight became cheap with the rise of the jumbo jet–we imagine a colorful, lavish ...

While a lot of attention deservedly goes to the pilots who first developed Alaska's aviation industry, less is known about those who thrived in the post-war era. In the 1950s and 1960s the fledgling ...

An 18-month NASA research effort to visualize the passenger airplanes of the future produced some ideas that at first glance appear to be out of an old 1950s aircraft magazine. Instead of exotic new ...