On this day in aviation history, February 20, 1939, the Douglas DC-5 made its first flight. Less remembered than its cousins, the DC-5 was poised to make advancing strides in the field of civil ...

The Douglas Aircraft Company was an early American aerospace and defense company that was based in Southern California. The company was founded in 1921 by Donald Wills Douglas Sr. In its early days, ...

Hundreds of different passenger airliners have gone into service in the last century-plus. Only a handful went on to be remembered in any substantial way. But the Douglas DC-7 sure did, if not always ...

The history of flight is, perhaps, one of the most astonishing stories we've ever told as a species. It's surreal to think just how fast tremendous advances in the field were made: There were ...

In decades gone by, air travel was very exclusive indeed. In the late 1920s and the beginning of the commercial flight boom, two round-trip tickets for a flight across the United States cost as much ...