When we think about World War I, images of muddy trenches and barbed wire usually come to mind. High above the chaos, a completely different kind of warfare was taking shape. Aviation was barely a ...

Where: The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. Entry is through the Airway Road gate. When: 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 27, and Sunday, Sept. 28 Cost ...

The 1900s took off with a fanatical craze for flying machines. In 1909, aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss contributed his Curtiss Pusher to this growing industry. The elaborately constructed plane was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The replica, Sophie, pays homage to the original Sopwith 1½ Strutter, a versatile British biplane introduced during the First ...

RHINEBECK, N.Y. (AP) -- There's still a place where buzzing biplanes swoop in pursuit of German triplanes, where pilots in open cockpits let their scarves flutter in the wind. The sights and sounds of ...

The Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome in New York canceled its remaining air shows for the season after a World War I replica plane crashed on Oct. 5, killing 60-year-old pilot and board member Brian Coughlin.

For me, there's nothing quite like driving a really big, torquey vintage engine. Put an old aircraft engine in a car and it's even better. Early-20th-century plane engines were simply bigger and ...