Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Flying a biplane is a throwback experience from the first decades of the last century, when barnstormers roamed the country, ...

Henri Coandă’s 1910 aircraft was one of aviation’s strangest early experiments, a propellerless biplane built around a primitive motorjet concept long before true turbojets existed. With a ducted fan, ...

For a decent chunk of aviation history, biplanes were everywhere, whether it was dogfights, training flights, or stunt shows. But then, suddenly, they weren't. To see what changed, we'll have to turn ...

UCI engineering students are building a full-scale replica of the Jenny, a 1917 biplane that was a trainer plane for the Marine Corps Editor’s note: Dr. Glenn Roquemore, who was president of Irvine ...

We associate biplanes with the infancy of aviation, but monoplanes existed from the very earliest days as well. The Bleriot XI that was the first airplane to cross the English Channel was a monoplane, ...

Barreto can afford to wax poetic because besides the two Battle Creek, Michigan-based brands, DIMOR also owns the historic Junkers aircraft brand in Germany, making it the world’s largest manufacturer ...