December 17, 2003, marked the 100th anniversary of the first heavier-than-air flight, or as pilot Orville Wright put it, "the first in the history of the world in which a machine carrying a man had raised itself by its own power into the air in...

The development of the airplane is a twentieth-century phenomenon. From the first powered aircraft to the creation of the supersonic transport, airplanes improved quickly. This was aided by the innovations of World War I and World War II. Demand for...

From the moment Orville and Wilbur Wright (1871-1948 and 1867-1912, respectively) took their famous flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the world fell in love with the idea of the airplane. But man's fascination with flight goes back even...

A fixed-wing aircraft is a heavier-than-air craft where movement of the wings in relation to the aircraft is not used to generate lift. The term is used to distinguish from rotary-wing aircraft or ornithopters, where the movement of the wing surfaces...

FIXED-WING AIRCRAFT F/A-18E/F SUPER HORNET BRIEFING: The multimission F/A-18E/F Super Hornet strike fighter is an evolutionary upgrade of the F/A-18C/D Hornet currently in service. The F/A-18E/F is able to conduct unescorted strikes against highly defended targets early in a conflict. The Super...

Army fixed-wing units from the Active and Reserve Components (AC/RC) are making significant contributions supporting the mission in the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) area of operations (AO). The theater has 34 fixed-wing aircraft assigned across three countries in four locations. Those aircraft comprise four...

A year after surviving a fiery plane crash, the state's lieutenant governor and his passenger have sued three companies that worked on the aircraft's engine for negligence.Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer and his passenger, John Leonhardt, were hospitalized for several days when the single-engine plane crashed...

Firefighters Sunday were battling two raging wildfires in Southern California that forced nearly 2,000 people to evacuate.The larger blaze burned 15,433 acres of dense, dry bush in the San Bernardino National Forest and was 12 percent contained. Authorities initially said the charred 18,000 acres but...