What You Need to Know: The USS America (CVA/CV-66), a Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier, was sunk in 2005 after weeks of controlled explosions as part of a live-fire test to study how a large ...

You won't fly cross country in a Wright Brothers plane. But their invention and discovery more than 100 years ago launched ...

The United States aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk is on its way to a scrapyard in Texas and too large to slip through the Panama Canal, the ship must sail around South America. In her 16,000-mile ...

Since his childhood, Randy Malmstrom has had a passion for aviation history and historic military aircraft in particular. He has a particular penchant for documenting specific airframes with a ...

The Wright Flyer, which made the world's first sustained, controlled heavier-than-air flight on December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk ... it remains the fastest aircraft propelled by air-breathing ...

USS Kitty Hawk CV63, the last conventionally powered United States Navy aircraft carrier left over the weekend from a naval base at Bremerton, Washington State and pulled by two tugs is on its way ...

After the trials at Kitty Hawk of their 1909 glider, designed with knowledge gained from their wind-tunnel experiments, the Wrights felt sure they could fly a power machine. There were delays in ...

As most drivers know, the state honors their "First in Flight" accomplishment on their license plates with a sketch of the brothers' experimental aircraft ... picked Kitty Hawk because they ...