Flying a biplane is a throwback experience from the first decades of the last century, when barnstormers roamed the country, landing in open fields and wowing crowds who had never seen an airplane ...

Biplanes once ruled the skies in the pioneering days of aviation and World War I. Now the old aircraft design could make a comeback in the silent supersonic jets of tomorrow. A newer version of the ...

A throwback to early 20th Century aviation may hold the key to eliminating the sonic boom - at least according to researchers at MIT and Stanford University. Strongly reminiscent of biplanes still in ...

In 1929, Italy put something in the air that looked almost impossible - a biplane so massive it rewrote the record books. It ...

Pilot Bruce Klein shows how the 1943 Stearman biplane was built with side panels so it could be inspected every day. Picture the iconic Snoopy, brave and dauntless in goggles and leather helmet, scarf ...

The Fairey Swordfish looked outdated even before World War II began - a fabric-covered biplane in an age of sleek monoplanes. Yet in the hands of the Fleet Air Arm, it became a deadly naval weapon, ...

There are helicopter drones and fixed-wing drones, but creating a hybrid of both is tricky. Even Parrot's Swing, as clever as it is, needs four propellers and elaborate wings to pull off its stunt.

The crash of a vintage biplane in a forested area of south-central Washington state left one person dead and another injured. The 1943 Stearman plane crashed Friday in the Gifford Pinchot National ...