On October 13, 1950, the Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation made its first flight. The upgraded airliner, developed to compete with the DC-6, became a symbol of luxury and innovation in postwar ...

We’re diving into one of aviation’s most overlooked innovations — turbo-compounding. It’s a system that didn’t see combat use during WWII, but helped push piston engines to their absolute limit in the ...

Commercial aviation history was reshaped when two passenger airliners flying east over the tri-state area plummeted into the ...

Paris has the Eiffel Tower. San Francisco, the Golden Gate Bridge. But only Penndel has a Lockheed Constellation as its most renowned landmark. Or did. Still does. Sort of. For 30 years Jim Flannery’s ...

When United Airlines Flight 718 and Trans World Airlines Flight 2 collided in midair above the Grand Canyon on a June morning in 1956—the spinning props of the United DC-7 slicing into the fuselage of ...