The Korean War featured the first jets the U.S. military flew in combat, but not everything was new and shiny. Some aircraft ...

Pilots looking for a stylish, speedy four-place retractable that is, as they say, a lot of aircraft for the money, should ...

So they explained the aircraft sightings by saying they were "natural phenomena" and "high-altitude weather research." The testing of the U-2 ended in the late 1950s; but, Area 51 has continued to ...

And the aircraft has to be able to tilt its rotors or wings in mid-air while still managing to stay aloft. Even so, in the 1950s, engineers realized that it might actually be possible to build a ...

Beginning in August 1950, WB-50 aircraft were converted for the air-sampling mission over a two-year period. WC-135 aircraft began replacing the WB-50s in December 1965 and became the workhorse of ...

Helicopters are a very useful tool for these types of operations, but they haven't always been the only solution. In the 1950s, an American inventor, Robert Edison Fulton Jr., created a personnel ...