Get to know the night sky in this free, live planetarium show. Astronomy Program Observe the Sun DC Metro Area Fridays and Saturdays from 12:00 pm to 3:00 pm, weather permitting. Observe the Sun ...

Animals have been inspiring human flight long before we achieved it! From their wing shape to how they control their movement, early flying machine designs are very similar to bird anatomy. Watch this ...

The XV-15 Tilt Rotor technology demonstrator was the culmination of efforts begun in the early 1950s to produce an aircraft that could takeoff, land, and hover like a helicopter, but with the speed of ...

Many people consider the P-51 Mustang the best fighter of World War II. Its combination of speed, range, maneuverability, and firepower gave it great versatility. Its use in all major theaters of the ...

Pratt & Whitney won a 1970 U.S. Air Force competition to design the engine for the service's next generation fighter, the F-15 Eagle. The F100-PW-100 first flew in July 1972 and entered service with ...

Following the end of World War Two, many strategists within the military services of the United States and its European allies realized that the large prepared runways required for jet aircraft were ...

Pratt & Whitney initiated design and development of the R-2800 Double Wasp, America’s first 18-cylinder radial engine, in 1936. With water injection and turbo-supercharging, the R-2800 produced more ...

The major airframe application of the Wright R-3350 engine was the Boeing B-29 during World War II. This engine continued to give useful commercial service after the war, one version of which was the ...

Colonel Donnelly earned his private pilot's license in a Cessna 150 from Sawyer Aviation in Phoenix, AZ on September 14, 1970. He entered the Air Force in June 1975, after graduating from the United ...