Vintage Aviation News on MSN4h
Today in Aviation History: First Flight of the Stinson Detroiter
Originally built as a biplane, the Stinson Detroiter launched one of the largest aviation companies in America ...
Oklahoma's Native Son: Who Was Will Rogers?
Will Rogers died when his plane crashed in Alaska territory in 1935.
The National Interest11h
These 3 American Aircraft Redefined What It Meant to Fly “Fast”
The SR-71 was so fast that when fired upon with a surface-to-air missile, the SR-71 could simply accelerate and outrun it. Perhaps no aspect of human flight captivates the public’s imagination like ...
This trailblazing airport was known for record-breaking world firsts. A century on, no one’s heard of it
How a forgotten airport was once the gateway to Europe and the tale of a 19th-century waterway which became “the heart of the ...
U.S Air Force removes course that included videos of Tuskegee airmen, female WWII pilots
The Tuskegee Airmen were founded in 1941 in Tuskegee, Alabama when the U.S. Army Air Corp began a program to train Black servicemembers as Air Corps Cadets.
The National Interest2h
Lockheed’s L-133 Starjet was Almost the World’s First Fighter Jet
The Lockheed L-133 Starjet was a prime example of a paradoxical “successful failure.” As I asserted in a recent article for The National Interest, of all the great geniuses in the history of military ...