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After Three Years on Mars, NASAs Ingenuity Helicopter Mission Ends

The Ingenuity Mars helicopter, the first aircraft to operate and fly on another planet, has come to an end after sustaining damage to one or more of its rotor blades.

Too late to make a difference in WWII, and too slow for the new jet age, Grumman's F7F Tigercat was a capable warplane that never got to prove itself.

Considering just one cubic yard of dirt weighs about a ton, this amateur boring project has quickly become a safety hazard, leading to multiple vacate orders.

As we celebrate 120 years of aviation with a plug door and several iPhones tumbling from an in-flight spanking-new Boeing 737 Max, and a new Airbus A350 burning to a cinder in Tokyo, it is fair to note that not a single passenger was killed in either incident (although four Japanese coast guards perished on

The First Flight Airport and Wright Brothers National Memorial are located on North Carolina's Outer Banks.

Best Bets: Nikki Glaser at the Paramount, "Cinderella," Lord of the Rings marathon from Cinemark, Wright Bros. exhibit at Wings over the Rockies museum and Cinderella at Arvada Center

Since the birth of the Wright Flyer, the optimum way to load passengers onto a plane has eluded the aviation industry. Some load back-to-front, some forego…

Let us be inspired this Christmas with the merry mystical words of the successors of Peter with a small snapshot of the world around them. I'm going back

Wright-Patterson Aero Club operated at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base from 1954 until its closure in 2012.