On this day in aviation history, February 27, 1945, the Curtiss XF15C (unofficially called the Stingeree) made its first flight. This was one of the few aircraft that combined both a piston engine and ...
Eighty-five years ago today, the first prototype turbojet aircraft, the He 178, was test-flown only days before Germany invaded Poland to start World War II. The plane could fly for only six minutes.