A team of volunteers has completed the construction of a World War I biplane after more than 20 years—and they are now preparing to fly it. The Sopwith 1½ Strutter was built from scratch by the ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Sopwith Aviation Company was founded by Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith in 1912 and the company opened its first factory that year in Kingston upon ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Last month, a replica World War One plane finally took to the skies ...

Britain last week showed off a delta-wing plane, the Gloster Javelin, which its builder thinks is the fastest, longest-range, all-weather day & night fighter ever built. Nobody needed to guess who the ...

An unsung genius who designed the two-winged fighter planes that ruled the skies over France in the First World War is to be the subject of a new book. It will reveal the true story of Herbert Smith's ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Single-engine, single-seat, British-built World War I biplane fighter; 230 horsepower Bentley B.R.2 engine; Olive drab ...

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 highly ...

In the turbulent skies of the World War I era, innovation and bravery led to the birth of aerial combat, with both the Allies and the Central Powers vying for dominance in an uncharted battlespace.

On October 10, 1965, Snoopy, clad in aviator goggles and a fringed scarf, marched to his doghouse, sat himself on top and took flight. The star beagle of the “Peanuts” comics was now an aviator, ...

The number of genuine First World War vintage military airplanes still known to exist across the globe grows smaller and smaller as each year passes. The number of airworthy examples of these aircraft ...

100 years after the Battle of Vimy Ridge, a Canadian CC-177 transported seven World War One fighters to France. April, 1917. The Great War is in full swing and the British and Commonwealth forces are ...