Ferry flying is a lucrative but high-risk industry. Elite pilots deliver small planes across oceans and continents - distances these aircraft were not designed to fly.

Passengers could break the sound barrier again as technology delivers faster but quieter jets.

Cramped seating arrangements on economy flights could get significantly worse if Airbus' latest design ever becomes a reality. A patent filed by the plane manufacturer envisions stacking passengers on top of one another -- a bit like blocks in a game of Tetris. "In modern means of transport, in particular in aircraft, it is very important from an economic point of view to make optimum use of the available space in a passenger cabin,"...

ENJOY the space while you can.

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To coincide with the delivery of the latest Boeing Dreamliner jet to British Airways, the plane maker releases a time-lapse film of how it was built.

An FAA rule has inadvertently banned the development of electric airplanes in a category that makes it easier and cheaper for manufacturers to design simple, fun-to-fly aircraft.

I was close enough to stick my hand inside the jet engine, or sit on the giant landing gear.

This amazing little aircraft is as fun on the water as it is in the air, and its spin-resistant design makes it safer during a stall.

The SR-71 Blackbird flew to 85,000 feet. The folks behind this glider want to beat it.

Twenty years ago, Cessna gave birth to a military jet trainer that had wealthy private pilots with fighter jock dreams licking their chops. Here’s the story of how Cessna ended up with their promising design and why they walked away from it.

More than two decades before the first flight of the F-117A "Nighthawk" stealth fighter—and two years before Russian mathematician Pyotr Ufimtsev would publish a paper first defining the physics that would drive development of stealth aircraft—engineers at Boeing's Wichita, Kansas, facility performed tests on an experimental design that might have been the first stealth aircraft ever.

Unknown to most Americans, the Pentagon has spent $2.7 billion developing a system of giant radar-equipped blimps to provide an early warning if the country were ever attacked with cruise missiles, drones or other low-flying weapons. After nearly two decades of disappointment and delay, the system — known as JLENS — had a chance to prove its worth...

Lockheed Martin Corp said on Thursday that U.S. officials have approved its $9 billion takeover of Black Hawk helicopter maker Sikorsky Aircraft from United Technologies Corp.

A high-school dropout named Bill Lear was the mastermind behind an aircraft that flew the world’s wealthiest people.

The U.S. B-29 Superfortress makes its debut flight in Seattle, Washington. It was the largest bomber used in the war by any nation. The B-29 was conceived in 1939 by Gen. Hap Arnold, who was afraid a German victory in Europe would mean the United States would be devoid of bases on the eastern side of the Atlantic from which to counterattack.

The war in Afghanistan proved that we can't just rely on new technology, but the Pentagon wouldn't listen—and troops paid the price.

A group of British aviation enthusiasts committed to seeing Concorde fly again has revealed it has the funds to purchase one of the supersonic jets and bring it back into service within the next four years. Club Concorde, which consists of “ex-captains, ex-charterers and people passionate about Concorde” hopes to use £120m funding in reserve for its ambitious “return to Flight” project.

Another edit of one of the pictures I took at the Roskilde Airshow 2013 in August. North American Harvard T6 -

British fans of the famous jet say they have enough money to buy one and return it to service for the first time since 2003