But the Air Force wouldn’t have it ... purposes the transonic region began around 500 mph—a speed that propeller airplanes could barely attain but at which jets came into their own.

The aircraft is now in the Honduras air museum, which keeps it in running (but not flying) condition. The last dogfights between piston-engine, propeller-driven airplanes weren’t fought in the ...

Hallion is The Air Force Historian for the United States ... looking at the problems of flow around propellers, because propeller tips were beginning to approach the speed of sound as the ...

Airplanes obviously employ very different engine technology compared to ground vehicles, but some actually do use a form of ...

Specific missions call for strangely shaped wings, oddly proportioned fuselages, and overall shapes that sometimes are barely recognizable as airplanes ... by the U.K.'s Air Department during ...

I went to the Delta Flight Museum at Delta Air Lines headquarters in Atlanta. The Museum is home to exhibits like the first ...

World War II witnessed tremendous growth in the size of American military aviation, from about 2,500 airplanes ... propeller-driven trainers, fighters, flying boats, and bombers to the nation’s first ...

Cruising altitude is the height above sea level that the aircraft flies for the majority of its time in the air. Most commercial ... these common passenger jet airplanes operate between 30,000 ...

The Bering Air flight that crashed in sea ice off Alaska, killing 10, was over the weight limit for a "flight into known or ...

The DC-7’s left wing destroyed the Constellation’s tail, followed by both critically damaged airplanes hurtling towards the ground. This crash led to wide-scale changes to air traffic control ...