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While the Tuskegee Airmen have become icons in the history of American aviation, fewer people know the story of Bessie ...

Oct. 7.-The sixty- foot steel-built flying machine, the climax of years of exhaustive study in the efforts of Prof. Samuel P. Langley, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, to solve the ...

Whitehead continued to build powered flying machines under contract ... they inserted a statement stipulating that if the Smithsonian ever recognized that a machine was “capable of carrying ...

Eighty-six years ago today, on June 1, 1939, the Focke-Wulf Fw 190-nicknamed the “Shrike”-took to the skies for the first ...

The P-61 was a beautiful ship to fly. It didn’t have a wicked bone in its body, and would tolerate mishandling that would ...

Discover the Volonaut Airbike, a jet-powered marvel by Tomasz Patan, designed to transform urban travel with its speed, ...

Spirit of St. Louis on display in the Boeing Milestones of Flight exhibit at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. [Credit: Eric Long/Smithsonian Air and Space Museum ...

Acclaimed director Ava DuVernay reflected on what the Smithsonian museums mean to Americans as she received a lifetime achievement award on Thursday at the National Museum of American History.

Everyone wants a flying car for some reason. Plenty of folks are desperate for it, despite not only the risks to public health and safety from giving Altima drivers the power of flight but the ...