In the 1930s, with the black clouds of war gathering over the skies of Europe once more, the Soviet Union under Josef Stalin pushed to demonstrate its technical prowess to the rest of the world, ...

Well-mannered women were not supposed to engage in the daring and dangerous pursuit of aviation when a journalist named Harriet Quimby talked her editor into paying for her flying lessons in 1911.

Hanna Reitsch is definitely among Germany's most famous female pilots. During her lifetime she has flown in nearly every (German) aircraft conceivable, setting many records along the way. Yet her ...

SMO — Before the Tuskegee Airmen or Amelia Earhart's head-turning escapades, there was Bessie Coleman. "The air is the only place free from prejudices," Coleman once said, and very few would know it ...