The Wright brothers took flight for the first time the same year The New York Times published an editorial speculating it could take 1 to 10 million years to develop a successful flying machine. The ...
Aviation pioneers at the turn of the 20th century exhibited a dream and daring much like the spirit that drove the mythological Icarus to attempt a prison escape by trying to fly away on wax wings ...
The Indian Air Force's MiG-21, the country's first supersonic fighter and interceptor aircraft, whose induction in the early 1960s catapulted the force into the jet age, will roar in the Indian skies ...
Overlooked by history, not many people know of Central Louisiana aviation pioneers Charles Page and Leo Ortego. Now, you can learn about them at AEX.
First exhibited in 1878, Charles F. Ritchel’s dirigible was about as wacky, dangerous and impractical as any airship ever launched Erik Ofgang - History Correspondent “When I was making it, people ...
One of the early flying daredevils in the Wildwoods and Cape May region was a pilot named Marshall Earle Reid who fit the description of one of “the daring young men in their flying machines.” Reid, ...