Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Colorado-based startup is touting a massive new cargo plane as an airlift option for the Pentagon. The Windrunner is supposed to ...

The Douglas VC-54C Skymaster was the first plane built specifically for use by the US president. "The Flying White House" became better known by its nickname, the "Sacred Cow." It operated from 1944 ...

In a Bennington workshop, a handful of high school students are engaged in an unconventional afterschool activity: building a small airplane. Their mentor is Jim Sharkey, a recently retired aerospace ...

LONDONDERRY, N.H. — When students in New Hampshire high schools began building planes, they didn’t expect the aircraft’s designer to be available for questions. But that’s what will happen when ...

NATS reports that a medium aircraft descending at about 1000 feet makes about 70 DbA, and that this is a crucial part of the aircraft's operations that has been developed over time to be less ...