Boeing 747 aircraft are still being sought after as passenger and freighter aircraft, as well as backups for Air Force One, by countries from the United States to Russia.

The milestone was achieved on Dec.16 at Wisk’s test facility in Hollister, Calif. During the flight, which was captured on video and lasted about one minute, the yellow eVTOL took off, hovered, and performed several stabilizing maneuvers in the air ...

Roald Amundsen and Umberto Nobile, along with an international crew, completed the first verified crossing of the North Pole by air in the airship Norge on May 12, 1926.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. In this age of 15-hour nonstop flights, it’s hard to imagine a world where even flying a couple of hundred miles ...

LONDON—Long-awaited flight testing of MBDA’s Spear 3 mini cruise missile on the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has begun. The turbojet-powered missile, which is set to become the primary weapon of the UK’s F-35 fleet,

SpaceX is targeting as early as 6:30 p.m. ET for the 12th test flight of its Starship megarocket — the first of a new generation of scaled-up prototypes called Starship V3. • SpaceX scrubbed the first launch attempt on Thursday evening after several last-minute issues arose with seconds left on the countdown clock.

SpaceX’s Starship V3 nailed a splashdown in the Indian Ocean on two engines, survived reentry without major heat shield damage, and then tipped over and exploded exactly as planned. It proved to be a key test milestone as Starship will serve as the lander for NASA's Artemis IV crewed moon landing mission.