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.

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

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

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The next generation of air dominance will be arriving soon in the form of the F-47, a sixth-generation air superiority ...

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

More than two decades after Boeing sold its Wichita, Kan. plant, the aerospace manufacturer has finalized a deal to bring it ...

Many know the Spitfire, Hurricane, Lancaster, and Mosquito as the ‘A-listers’ of British aircraft of the Second World War.

"Here on Ford Island, in the heart of Pearl Harbor, the Museum is the guardian of the history of America's World War II aviation battlefield," said Museum Board Chair Gen. Raymond E. Johns (USAF ret.) ...