McKeesport native Helen Richey became the first woman to fly a commercial airliner to deliver mail and transport passengers. She was part of what was known as the “air-minded movement.” Richey and ...

Air Force Major Angela Walker, an Air Battle Manager, poses with a Red Tail Scholarship Foundation Student at LFA’s Eyes Above the Horizon outreach program. [Courtesy: Legacy Flight Academy] Legacy ...

From the myth of Icarus to the sketches of Leonardo Da Vinci's ornithopter, humanity has looked to the sky since first watching birds take wing. History is dotted with ill-advised attempts to achieve ...

She was a groundbreaking aviator who learned to fly after hearing tall tales from a pilot who’d crash-landed on her grandfather’s golf course in Warren Township, New Jersey. Later, she was one of the ...

Most Americans know the story of Amelia Earhart, the 20th-century aviation pioneer whose plane disappeared somewhere over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 as she attempted to become the first woman pilot to ...

On January 14, 1953, Convair's YF2Y-1 Sea Dart made its first flight, becoming the only seaplane fighter to break the sound ...

They fought for their places in the sky and advanced aviation for generations of women Sue Morris and Brian Butko, Director of Publications, Senator John Heinz History Center Header for “Birds of a ...

The recently solved Hindenburg mystery is often the first event to pop up in discussions about the worst aviation disasters, partly because of the iconic newsreel footage of the 1937 accident in ...

Inside Look stories give Star-Telegram subscribers exclusive sneak peeks and behind-the-scenes reporting. Story suggestion? Editors@star-telegram.com. North Texas has a remarkable history in aviation, ...

The Glenn L. Martin Maryland Aviation Museum will be expanded into a 150,000-square-foot facility currently owned by Lockheed Martin. Now located at the Martin State Airport next to the ATP Flight ...

The old hangar still stands along New Highway, south of the American Airpower Museum, on the grounds of Republic Airport in East Farmingdale. A gigantic, Quonset hut-style building, now pained by rust ...

Who you are is shaped by your circumstance. Wilbur Wright was a brilliant young man from a well-to-do family, and the circumstances of his life compelled him to magnificent accomplishments. The elder ...