Because the Wright brothers solved the problem of sustained ... successfully navigated a flying machine of their own invention for three miles in the teeth of a twenty-one-mile gale, and, picking ...

At first, since the Wright Brothers had been toiling in relative obscurity, French aviators heralded Santos Dumont’s flight as the world’s first. Now, much to Brazil’s distress, the French and most of ...

The Air Force's F-102 Delta Dagger was a novel concept in theory, but in reality, it was a potential danger to the pilots who ...

The automatic pilot (‘autopilot’) has to be one of aviation’s finest technological inventions. Yet, it is also one of the ...

Flying by the numbers may not be as sexy as that worn-bomber-jacket, stick-and-rudder fantasy we have in our heads, but the ...

Talpade's success with Marutsakh was witnessed by then Maharaja of Baroda, H H Sayaji Rao Gaekwad, and eminent Indian judge Mahadeva Govind Ranade. According to Pt. S. D. Satwalekar, a pupil of ...

Aviation enthusiasts have a new gift coming their way courtesy of Google Earth Pro, which now has flight simulators available ...

Folks in Jamestown heard details of the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition in April of 1905.

Munster senior outfielder Mason Jarrett doesn’t take too kindly to losing. That’s not limited to baseball. It also applies to more than video games, card games and board games. It extends into areas ...

A 100 years of history, trivia and anecdotes from the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata ...