In the 1960s, Soviet engineer Robert Bartini envisioned an aircraft unlike anything else—a flying machine that could take off vertically, skim across water, and detect submarines. The result was the ...

In a September 1965 test, a YF-12 successfully launched a quarter-kiloton atomic missile, from an altitude of 75,000 feet at ...

The Soviet Union had ambitious plans to build a powerful aircraft carrier fleet but never fully realized these goals. Despite ...

One reason for the longevity of the Fishbed, as NATO ignominiously nicknamed the MiG-21, was that the Soviet aviation industry learned significant lessons from the swept-wing design of the MiG-17 ...

Fighter jets are iconic symbols of aviation, but not all have lived up to their reputation. From the Soviet Yak-38 to the U.S. F7U Cutlass, several designs have been plagued by poor performance ...

Both pleaded guilty to smuggling heroin into Weston Airport on dates between November 28 and December 1 last year ...

State Aviation Museum, Kyiv The UK sent some 3,000 Hurricanes to the Soviet Union during the war against Nazi Germany The Hawker Hurricane was the workhorse of the Battle of Britain - the air ...

The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating ... owned flying MiG-23 in the world," Mr Filer, who collects Soviet-made fighter jets, told a local news outlet in Louisiana last year.

The sixty-ninth anniversary of the Saab 35 Draken’s first flight, an event that launched a revolutionary chapter in Swedish ...