In 1930 from a Junkers F.13 leased by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (a forerunner of BP), the site of the first oil strike in the Middle East (1908), looks deserted. Today, its wells produce 5,000 ...

The Airacuda was the first military airplane produced by the Bell Aircraft Corporation. It was built in the 1930s as a ...

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, ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The bombers could allow the fighters to lift off with heavier weapons, while the fighters in turn could protect the bombers and even run their engines to speed along ...

In the late 1930s, aircraft engines improved to so quickly that the prophesies of giant ocean liners of the sky were quickly catching up with reality. The DC-4 represent the biggest and best ...

At the corner of Stone Church and Norton Roads in a remote corner of Red Hook, the roar, buzzing and sometimes sputtering of 100-year-old airplanes preparing to take flight is a familiar sound on a ...