How did fighter planes evolve from rickety biplanes to deadly machines during WWI? When World War I began ... By the war’s end, the essential blueprint of the modern fighter had emerged: it ...

These starkly beautiful images show a little known, but hugely important, landmark in British aviation history. Masterpieces of engineering, these wind tunnels at the Royal Aircraft Establishment ...

A replica World War I-era biplane took to the skies Tuesday, preparing to mark 100 years since the military’s aerial deployment to war. The yellow recreation of a BE-2 biplane from the Royal ...

It had two fixed wheels and a wooden tail skid. Fitted with a 90-horsepower Curtiss OX–5 V8 engine, the biplane could hit 75 mph and fly as high as 11,000 feet. It had a wingspan of 43 feet ...

In August 1914, the first WW1 planes to touch down in France were BE2 biplanes from the Number 2 Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps. Stephen Slater flew his replica BE2 from Northamptonshire to ...