IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The F8U Crusader was the first ...

For the U.S. Navy and its planemakers, supersonic air war poses a tough question: how to build a jet hot enough to fight all comers yet cool enough to land on short carrier flight decks. Last week the ...

The X-176 Pratt & Whitney turbojet engine was the prototype of the famous J57 series, the first successful twin-spool turbine engine and the first production aircraft engine in the 10,000 lb (44,480 N ...

For one unsettling second U.S. Navy Lieut. John B. Barnes thought that the laws of aerodynamics had suddenly been repealed. There he was, climbing away from the runway at Italy’s Capodichino Airport, ...