Richard Schilberg was an aviation pioneer whose early efforts in Stuttgart made him Arkansas' first acknowledged aircraft manufacturer.

From test flights on aircraft made of wood and canvas to gleaming aluminum hulls to the massive transcontinental flights of today, airplanes have undergone an evolution over the past 100 years that ...

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Then the kit arrived, and I realized that it was real, like rivets, spars, and sheet metal ... there have put together many amateur-built aircraft over the years. One of the first was an RV ...

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but Orville made the first flight at 10:35 a.m., lasting 12 seconds and traveling 120 feet. Wilbur flew it the longest that day for 59 seconds and across 852 feet. "They proved that they can have ...

The Swiss brand Urwerk says its new timepiece is just as precise and technically advanced as the SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance aircraft was. By Rachel Felder Metal from a Lockheed SR-71 aircraft ...