On May 31, 1935, the Fairchild Model 45 first flew, marking the company's entry into the growing executive aircraft market of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. In this age of 15-hour nonstop flights, it’s hard to imagine ...

The milestone was achieved on Dec.16 at Wisk’s test facility in Hollister, Calif. During the flight, which was captured on video and lasted about one minute, the yellow eVTOL took off, hovered, and ...

A new "quiet" supersonic X-59 jet designed to revolutionize air travel successfully completed its first test flight, Lockheed Martin announced this week. The sleek, needle-point aircraft built for ...

Fifty years ago, the first Concorde supersonic transport took to the skies over Toulouse, France. Hailed in its day as a technological achievement to rival the first manned Moon landing, it not only ...

A meme circulated via social media purports to show a female flight attendant from the first commercial U.S. flight in 1914: The first commercial (i.e., passenger) flight in the U.S. is generally ...