4 days ago · This article tells the story of the invention of the airplane and the development of civil aviation from piston-engine airplanes to jets. For a history of military aviation, see military aircraft; for …

The first U.S. jet, the Bell P-59A Airacomet, made its first flight the following year. It was slower than contemporary piston-engined fighters, but in 1943–44 a small team under Lockheed designer …

4 days ago · History of flight - Jet Engines, Aviation Pioneers, Air Travel: From the very invention of flight at the beginning of the 20th century, military aircraft and engines generally led the way, and …

Using technology captured from the Germans after the war, Mikoyan and Gurevich produced the first Soviet jet fighter, the MiG-9, which first flew in 1946. During the Cold War, OKB-155 developed some …

Although airlines ran newspaper advertisements after World War I, the biggest aviation headlines belonged to fliers in relatively primitive piston-engine aircraft that challenged the Atlantic and …

This article tells the story of the invention of the airplane and the development of civil aviation from piston-engine airplanes to jets. For a history of military aviation, see military aircraft; for lighter-than …

In 1931 the Boeing Aircraft Company produced the B-9 bomber. Anticipating all-metal fighters, the B-9 was the first operational combat aircraft with all-metal cantilever monoplane design, semiretractable …

In 1919 the Netherlands organized a new airline, KLM, and began service between London and Amsterdam using aircraft built by Anthony Fokker. (KLM now proudly claims the title of the world’s …

Among business aircraft, smaller jet engines, with good fuel-consumption characteristics, became available to power executive jets. The first to appear included the Lockheed JetStar of 1957, which …

In aviation, the cockpit has evolved significantly over the years, from the open cockpits of early aircraft to the roomy, sophisticated, enclosed environments of modern planes.