The de Havilland Comet Racer of 1934 is a ravishingly beautiful machine with an incredible, perhaps miraculous, backstory.

In 1930 from a Junkers F.13 leased by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (a forerunner of BP), the site of the first oil strike in the Middle East (1908), looks deserted. Today, its wells produce 5,000 ...

EcoMotors is concocting an engine with two pistons in one honking cylinder. It harks back to what plane engineers tinkered with in the 1930s. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The bombers could allow the fighters to lift off with heavier weapons, while the fighters in turn could protect the bombers and even run their engines to speed along ...

The Douglas DC-3, the plane that revolutionized air travel in the 1930s and which went out of production in 1942, is still taking flight over the dense jungles of southern Colombia, delivering ...

Dirigibles still evoke vivid memories of disaster—the stunning tragedies of the 1930s that destroyed Germany’s Hindenburg, Britain’s R-101, and America’s Akron and Macon, and caused great loss of life ...