In the 1960s, the race to build the world’s first supersonic airliner became a high-stakes Cold War duel. In the West, ...

The BI roared across the sky as Grigory Bakhchivandzhi pushed the Soviet prototype harder than ever before. Its rocket engine ...

When a Soviet-state-owned aerospace manufacturer is demanded by the Communist Party to build an aircraft, it gets done no matter how dumb the concept is in theory. This authoritarian approach to the ...

You may think you’re cool with your blown big-block, but you’ll never be ‘my fighter jet burns 40 gallons of fuel per second’ ...

The goal of the exhibition to tell the history of the formation and development of the Soviet Union’s aviation industry by focusing on the pilots, the designers and the aircraft they created. Among ...

In 1960, the Soviet Union shot down a high-altitude U.S. U-2 spy airplane and captured pilot Francis Gary Powers. Aviation Week parroted the U.S. government’s statement that the aircraft was down due ...

At the North Pole last week it rained, and the three big Soviet planes beside the base camp sank slightly into the mushy surface of the ice floe. The fourth plane, which came down 40 miles away ...

NASM copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Summary "The book details the routes of the aircraft deliveries to Russia, the modifications which were done in order to suit the ...

Retired Navy. Capt. Royce Williams' aerial derring-do during the Korean War is perhaps one of the greatest solo achievements in U.S. combat aviation history. Yet, for a half-century, it was erased ...

The U.S. Air Force is promoting Lockheed Martin’s F-16 fighter as a “bridge” to eventual F-35 purchases by former Soviet satellite states now allied with the U.S., according to Bruce Lemkin, deputy ...

The Cold War coincided almost perfectly with the rise of the jet age. In the denouement of World War II, American and Soviet forces scrambled to secure jet engine technology developed by German ...