The Ford Tri-Motor aircraft is known as the first luxury airliner, it redefined world travel by marking the beginning of commercial flights. It’s America’s first mass-produced airliner that dates back ...

Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, it became common for mail to be transported by air, and many airmail aircraft would also carry passengers. One such airline was Western Air Express, which merged with ...

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RICHMOND, Ind. — An airplane that first flew in 1928 will soar over Richmond throughout the July Fourth weekend. Its roaring engines and gleaming, silver body will be unmistakable as it passes about 1 ...

The 1920s began with Flight still under the leadership of our founding editor, Stanley Spooner, operating from a small office in Great Queen Street in central London. The magazine’s first decade from ...

From 1945 until 1993, anyone staring across Pensacola Bay saw the silhouette of an aircraft carrier, notable among them the historic USS Lexington (AVT 16). Yet these training carriers were not the ...

Off we go into the wild blue yonder. From the crude engineering of the Wright brothers' Model B to the present-day sleek fighter planes of the U.S. Air Force, aircraft have an important and romantic ...

In the years since the first aircraft landed on the Isle of Wight, two Isle of Wight boat-building companies on the island had started to make aircraft of their own. The first was J Samuel White & ...