Airliners are debuting swankier first-class options so that more travelers can fly in the lap of luxury. The new designs are the last changes for the aviation industry more than 100 years after a set ...

The invention of the airplane dramatically reshaped the world, shrinking distances and connecting continents in ways once unimaginable. From humble wooden gliders to supersonic jets, the history of ...

John J. Montgomery sits at the controls of his 1911 monoplane glider, in which he flew about 50 times in Evergreen Valley in San Jose. Montgomery, a native of Sutter County, is a key California ...

Petrópolis, Brazil — Who invented the airplane? Questions don’t get much simpler. But in Brazil and the United States, the answer you’ll get isn’t likely to be the same. In 1903, U.S. schoolchildren ...

FILE - Orville Wright is at the controls of the "Wright Flyer" as his brother Wilbur Wright, right, looks on during the plane's first flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C., on Dec. 17, 1903. A backwards image of ...