EcoMotors is concocting an engine with two pistons in one honking cylinder. It harks back to what plane engineers tinkered with in the 1930s. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, ...

The U.S. Navy spent much of the early 1930s betting on one of the most ambitious concepts in military aviation history: giant rigid airships that could launch and recover fighter planes in midair, ...

Ten classic American aircraft from the 1930s, '40s and '50s take to the skies in the form of postage as the U.S. Postal Service dedicates the American Advances in Aviation commemorative stamp sheet at ...

The article highlights a 1937 Fairchild F-24 H as "Today's Top Pick" for vintage aircraft enthusiasts. This restored, four-seat antique aircraft is noted for being surprisingly practical for modern ...

Stipa-Caproni is an Italian experimental aircraft designed by Luigi Stipa and built by Gianni Caproni in 1932. Its barrel-shape fuselage, enclosing the engine and propeller, served as inspiration of ...

Over the 1930s, the Soviet Union's armament industry increased its output significantly, with the output of aircraft almost doubling, and tank output increasing by a factor of ten. As the war ...

Today we largely take international air travel for granted. Every major city in the world is little more than a hop, skip, and jump away. But what was it actually like to fly halfway around the world ...

York looks to have missed out on a new attraction in Piccadilly that would have celebrated a unique 1930s aircraft factory and an extraordinary ‘age of adventure’. STEPHEN LEWIS reports on the ‘missed ...

A 1930s aircraft is up for sale on auction website eBay for under £1000, but probably will take some more work to get off the ground. The 'Flying Flea' aircraft, currently based in Chipping Campden, ...