Today, aircraft wings are increasingly designed to prioritize stealth characteristics over raw speed—giving them a smooth, unbroken connection to the aircraft’s main fuselage.

Consolidated's most famous aircraft in World War II were the B-24 Liberator and the PBY Catalina patrol plane. However, ...

World War II ended generations ago, yet many of its weapons are still firing in today’s conflicts. Heavy machine guns, ...

Over the last 122 years of flight, there certainly hasn’t been a lack of innovation. Engineers, designers, and pilots all […] ...

The X-1’s fuselage was designed to resemble a .50 caliber bullet—one of the only shapes known to have stable flight at ...

The United States has used several different insignia on its military aircraft throughout its aviation history, and some have ...

World War II was fought on land, sea, and air, but it was the small arms carried by millions of soldiers that shaped the ...

From piston engines to future hydrogen fuel celled engines, the history of aero engines is full of revolutions.

With the dawn of the jet era, Midway was not prepared, and its runways were too short to accommodate airliners powered by jet ...

Billy Mitchell, a World War I air power commander, warned battleships were obsolete and future wars would be decided in the ...

These are an ongoing series of extraordinary aircraft existing at the extreme cutting edge of technology. The “X-planes” are ...

The following is the Dec. 8, 2025, Congressional Research Service in focus report, Defense Primer: Geography, Strategy and ...