The Spitfire, an iconic British single-seat fighter aircraft used by the Royal Air Force in World War II, is taking to the skies once again, marking 75 years since the D-Day invasions. But this time, ...

Machine builders clearly understand that their customers' requests are thinly veiled demands. Either the builder meets the "request," or a competitor will. That's the situation an OEM faced when one ...

Most of us can roughly picture what the first real powered aircraft, the Wright Flyer, looked like: two big parallel and rectangular wings, held in a flimsy-looking structure of wire and slats that ...