This article explores how WWII fighter designs reveal core reliability principles still essential in today’s industrial and ...

A trick I learned from a World War II-era Army-trained aviator was to look for rainbows appearing around the taxiway lights ...

Britain’s best fighter aircraft of the early part of World War 2, the Supermarine Spitfire, was closely matched to the German ...

During World War I, British aircraft initially flew without markings, leading to tragic friendly fire incidents that killed their own pilots. When Union Jacks painted on wings were mistaken for German ...

IT takes courage to fly, whether as a pilot (or as a passenger) in a metal coffin, assembled, as the astronaut Alan Shepherd put it, “from hundreds of parts supplied by the lowest bidder”.

A classified blueprint shows why weapons or troop numbers alone may not decide the outcome of a broader conflict between Moscow and the West ...

This week on Weapons and Warfare, host Ryan Robertson explores the groundbreaking partnership between Textron and Leonardo to ...

Airline food? What's up with that? These days, most airline food isn't something to write home about. Back in the day, menus ...

But Plaut is confident that next year it will be possible to purchase his plane for about $1 million dollars in the US, and take your child to school, even if you are not a pilot. It will be possible ...

At the dawning of the British Empire in 1818, the romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley penned a memorable sonnet freighted with foreboding about the ...

When Donald Trump’s term in office is done, this country moves quickly to recover its capacity for economic rationality, it should be able to regain some version of its place in the world economy. At ...

Former Qantas CEO Alan Joyce has helped launch Sydney Seaplanes: Honouring Heritage, Embracing the Future, alongside its ...