China is among a handful of countries with multiple aircraft carriers; its most-advanced, CNS "Fujian," may be put into ...

Modern passenger planes are pretty impressive machines. They carry hundreds of people for thousands of miles, pack in luxury trimmings like showers and can even hit supersonic speeds in the right ...

Ideally, an aircraft would be made of something reasonably strong, light, and weather resistant. Cardboard, is none of those ...

A flap from a Delta Airlines plane plummeted from the sky and onto a driveway in North Carolina early Wednesday. A flap from a Delta Airlines plane fell off mid-flight and landed onto a driveway in ...

Airplanes are one of the best examples of thoughtful engineering. Most of the things you find on an aircraft have a special purpose behind them, and there will rarely be a feature that has been added ...

Dry maple seeds on their branch. Their wings allow the seeds to spin and glide on the wind, carrying them away from their parent tree. Every other Friday, the Outside/In team here at NHPR answers ...

A woman climbed out onto an airplane wing, and it was all caught on camera. An Alaska Airlines flight that originated in Milwaukee landed at Washington's Seattle-Tacoma International Airport just ...

BOSTON — A United Airlines flight headed from San Francisco to Boston made an emergency landing in Denver when pieces of a wing were “coming apart” in flight. The Federal Aviation Administration ...

One of the most innovative and exciting airplane concepts today is the Z4, developed by the JetZero startup. Touted as the world's first all-wing commercial airplane, the futuristic-looking Z4 aims to ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – You may one day board a plane where the wings will look very different. Future airplanes are ditching traditional wing design for something sleeker—long, thin wings braced with ...

C-5M Super Galaxy, the largest airplane in the USAF, from the 436th Airlift Wing conducts aerial refueling with a KC-135 ...

The tri-service tilt-wing aircraft promised helicopter lift with turboprop speed, but went from V/STOL powerhouse to museum ...