The history of aviation is wild. The world went from the first powered flight in 1903 to the Moon just 66 years later. We can now travel (almost) anywhere we wish at enormous speeds and with ...

Air power may have proved lethally effective during the First World War, but the technology was still in its infancy. By 1939, however, European air forces as well as North American and Asian powers ...

In the short time between the first flight of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk in 1903 and the Battle of Britain that started in July of 1940, the airplane had evolved from a rickety DIY creation to ...