Airplanes
The World’s Whitest Paint May Soon Help Cool Airplanes and Spacecraft
The ultra-white color reflects up to 97.9 percent of sunlight and may reduce our reliance on air conditioning
A New Look for the National Air and Space Museum
Follow the October reopening of America’s most-visited museum with exclusive coverage from Smithsonian magazine
Virgin Atlantic Is Dropping Its Gendered Uniform Policy
The change is part of a growing movement to make travel more inclusive
After the Wright Brothers Took Flight, They Built the World's First Military Airplane
The 1909 Military Flyer is the centerpiece of the "Early Flight" exhibition at the National Air and Space Museum
Electric Planes Are Taking Flight
More airlines are ordering battery-powered aircraft to help reduce their environmental impact
How the Bell X-1 Ushered in the Supersonic Age
The speeding-bullet design propelled Chuck Yeager into history
How Migrating Death's-Head Hawkmoths Fly Along a Straight Path
No prior study had continuously monitored wild, nocturnal migrating insects
The 80-Year Mystery of the U.S. Navy's 'Ghost Blimp'
The L-8 returned from patrolling the California coast for Japanese subs in August 1942, but its two-man crew was nowhere to be found
Who Was the First Woman to Fly Solo Around the World?
When the National Air and Space Museum reopens October 14, Geraldine Mock’s Cessna 180 soars in the new exhibition, "We All Fly"
How the Nemesis Air Racers Redefined Speed
For Jon and Patricia Sharp, crafting and flying the sleek airplanes was as much about sport as it was about ingenuity
Will Electronic Bag Tags Make Air Travel Less Chaotic?
Amid delays, cancellations and long lines, Alaska Airlines is rolling out a new technology that could make checking a bag easier and faster
A Brief History of Airplane Hijackings, From the Cold War to D.B. Cooper
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, hijackings occurred, on average, once every five days globally
Amelia Earhart Statue Finally Arrives at U.S. Capitol
After a 23-year delay, the statue will represent Kansas in the Statuary Hall Collection
The Record-Shattering Airplane Behind a Dashing Pilot’s Meteoric Rise to Fame
Roscoe Turner's air racer takes center stage this fall when newly renovated galleries open at the National Air and Space Museum
In 1920s New York, This Woman Typist Became a Pioneering Aerial Photographer
Edith Keating survived the Halifax Explosion and eventually took to the skies, marking a path for other women to fly in her wake
'Top Gun' Is Back. But Is the Elite Navy Fighter Pilot School Really Like the Movies?
The Smithsonian’s Chris Browne flew the much-feared F-14, and as a former TOPGUN student, knows well the power of a Navy-trained fighter pilot
U.S. Customs Agents Find Rare Moth Last Spotted in 1912
Larvae and pupae found in seed pods at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport last fall hatched into <em>Salma brachyscopalis Hampson</em> moths
This Quirky Contraption Lifted 19th-Century Pilots Into the Air for a Short, Exhilarating Glide
The rare Lilienthal glider, one of only a few originals known to exist, is newly conserved and ready for its public debut
The Russian Jet That Fights for Both Sides
What Ukrainian air force pilots had to say about their aging Su-27s.
Ukrainian Officials Say the World's Largest Aircraft, Antonov AN-225, Has Been Destroyed
The plane was undergoing maintenance in an airfield near Kyiv
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