The Breda-Zappata BZ.308, a sleek Italian four-engine airliner, first flew in 1948. Designed by Filippo Zappata, it blended ...

The Lisunov Li-2 was more than a copy of the Douglas DC-3, it was rebuilt from the ground up. Reinforced for combat, it dropped bombs, carried troops, and survived in conditions that destroyed other ...

Three people safely evacuated from an airplane that was off the runway and on fire at Ryan Airfield Saturday night, firefighters report. When Drexel Heights Fire District crews arrived, they found the ...

Before the gleaming 747s that now ferry U.S. presidents across oceans, there was a smaller, sleeker jet that carried the ...

Daylight saving time became a national standard in 1966 when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Uniform Time Act, which was established as a way to continue to conserve energy. The thinking was, ...