Tango Flight is a nonprofit organization that enables high school students to build airworthy Van's RV-12 kitplanes, aiming to inspire future engineers, pilots, and aviation technicians. Students ...

Aircraft manufacturing doesn’t have to be a commercial activity. Mark Strauss The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center has a new airplane: a Sonex Waiex-B that was built in one week at the Experimental ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Feb. 2—Students at CORE Charter School and other area high schools are in the midst of building a fully functional aircraft.

American aviator Howard Hughes (in hat) atop his flying boat the Spruce Goose (a Hughes H-4 Hercules), directing operations for the launch at Long Beach, California, on November 6, 1947. Here the ...

Somewhere during every aircraft project, a builder faces a quiet moment of truth. It might happen while drilling a hole in a structural member, setting a rivet in a hard-to-reach corner, or tightening ...