Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On December 17, 1903, the Wright brothers made their first powered flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and those 12 seconds ...

When you visit the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC, and at its Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia, you expect to see relics of a bygone era. From the original ...

French investigators have highlighted problems of conflicting interests in ageing pilots, and difficulties in determining medical fitness, after a Douglas DC-3 stalled and recovered at low height ...

Perhaps the most important aircraft in the history of commercial aviation was the Douglas DC-3. This year will mark the 90 th anniversary of the first commercial flight of the DC-3. On June 25, 1936, ...