Airliners have become an unremarkable part of modern life, but unless you happen to be an aircraft enthusiast, you’d be forgiven for thinking the latest Airbus model looks more or less the same ...

Propliners like the Boeing 377, Douglas DC-6, and Lockheed Super Constellation offered luxury and efficiency in the 1950s.

Hybrid-electric cars have been a staple of the road for many years now. Soon that same idea of a part-electric-, ...

Meanwhile, although supersonic airliners haven’t been flying since the Concorde retired in 2003, the Lockheed Martin X-59 Quesst supersonic airplane that is being built for NASA looks set to fix ...

Machinists at Boeing have gone on strike, another setback for the aviation giant whose reputation and finances were already ...

According to R.G. Grant's 2002 Complete History of Aviation, the Douglas DC-6 had its origins in the earlier DC-4. The United ...

Airlines have a very strong incentive not to risk their planes getting shot out of the sky. And it's not just a hypothetical fear. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union shot down a South Korean ...

The British Aerospace BAe-ATP Advanced Turbo-Prop was a second-generation, 64- to 72-passenger version of the earlier and ...

A strike by the 33,000 factory workers who assemble some of Boeing’s best-selling planes would come as another blow to a ...

The strike won’t affect travelers unless it lasts a very long time.

If you look at the first popular jet airliners, like the Boeing 707 and the DC-8, you'll notice that they have four engines. That's because jet engines during the 1950s just weren't as powerful ...