On Nov. 2, 1947, the largest aircraft ever built flew for about a minute for a mile over Long Beach Harbor in California. The Hughes H-4 Hercules, also called the Spruce Goose, was a wooden flying ...

Wood planes are interesting tools as essential as hammers, nails and saws to those who “fix” and “make” wooden objects. While the primary tasks of most planes are to smooth wooded surfaces and even ...

The homemade plane that killed three people when it crashed into a home last week was given special authorization to conduct test flights in and out of the North Las Vegas Airport, aviation officials ...

Admittedly, we aren’t really in a position to confirm whether or not the miniature wood plane put together by [Daniel d’Entremont] is actually the smallest in the world, but we’re willing to take his ...

High-performance homemade planes like the one that killed a beach jogger last week in South Carolina are prone to stall, especially when going slower while waiting to land, and have been involved in a ...