First photos of the four powerful turboprop Allison T-40 engines installed in the new Convair XP5Y-1 turning two sets of three-blade Acroproducts propellers …

City of Philadelphia has advertised for bids to build this $6-million terminal building at its International Airport. The structure will rise as high as five…

Two DC-6s are shown inside the first unit of United Air Lines' new facilities at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The recently-completed nose hangar…

A huge mural covering the entire semi- circular wall at the rear of the sales office is part of the decoration scheme for the new Havana quarters of Pan Amer…

Royal Canadian Air Force's first-line twin- jet long-range fighter, the Avro CF-100, took to the air for the first time last week, remaining aloft 20 min…

Newest addition to the USAF jet penetration fighter stable, the swept-wing North American YF-93A flew for the first time last week at Edwards AFB, Muroc, Cal…

Burbank-Lockheed Aircraft Corp. is the dark horse in the turbojet transport sweepstakes. Although nothing tangible has yet emerged from the sprawling Burbank…

The Convair-built Navy Sea Dart is the world's first hydro-ski, delta-wing seaplane. Hydro-ski landing gear operates on the same principle as the water s…

Engineers used to treat wings as rigid units, but the long, thin, narrow wings of today's jet bombers pose a new problem: aeroelasticity. In flight through…

North American designers reformed the nose of the Sabre, world's fastest service aircraft, to create an all-weather fighter version designated F-86D, whi…

The air indoctrination course at Eglin Field, Fla., recently ushered in a heavily-armed version of the Republic F-84E, performing as a fighter-bomber. In addit…

New flight photo of the Convair XF-92A, first U. S. delta wing plane to take the air, shows the vertical fin area below the wing and the stall vanes near eac…

Piasecki Helicopter Corp. last week took the wraps off its new all-metal fuselage HRP-2 Navy helicopter, development of the well known fabric-covered HRP-1 R…

By Henry W. Bagley RIO DE JANEIRO-Brazilians are running South America's biggest airline. Panair do Brasil. It was started, and for years operated by out…

Unusual photo shows most of USAF's top fighter and bomber types gathered for a "family portrait" at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. From front to r…

Douglas Aircraft Co. Inc.'s new DC-6A Liftmaster, freighter version of the DC-6 passenger plane, carries along its own powered, loading elevator capable …

First flight view of the Lockheed XF-90, experimental supersonic penetration fighter, now undergoing flight testing at Muroc AFB with Lockheed test pilot Ton…

With its first orders on the books, Douglas Aircraft Co. plans to keep its Super DC-3 selling program in high gear for the remainder of 1949. A sister ship o…

Inauguration of helicopter airmail operations in the Chicago area this month permits 10-minute service between the airport and the downtown Post Office roof.…

A production Vought F6U-1 Pirate is seen here in final assembly on the company's newly established production line at Grand Prairie, near Dallas. Of the …