The XB-70 Valkyrie was designed to rewrite the rules of flight—cruising at Mach 3 and soaring above 70,000 feet. But its path ...

Born from Cold War ambition and built to outrun enemy missiles at three times the speed of sound, the XB-70 Valkyrie was ...

The F-15 is a powerful US jet, made by McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) and first flew in 1972 and entered service in 1976.

Exactly 53 years ago, on July 27, 1972, the YF‑15A, prototype of the legendary McDonnell Douglas F-15 fighter, took to the ...

Ninety years to the day of the first flight of the B-17, one of the last surviving Flying Fortress bombers roared into Boeing ...

It’s been exactly 90 years since the first flight of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. There are only three left in existence ...

Airmail service was first tested in the US in 1911, but airplanes were a new invention and too risky for the federal government to invest in for reliable service. In ...