The ANT-9 was one of the Soviet Union’s first major aviation breakthroughs. This video explores how it helped shape the ...

On January 8, 1948, the Lavochkin La-15 made its first flight, becoming one of the Soviet Union's earliest jet fighters and a ...

I'm standing outside a locked gate and a barbed-wire fence. This is definitely the right place. Through the fence I can see some Soviet-era helicopters. The closest even says "CCCP" (the Russian ...

When a Soviet-state-owned aerospace manufacturer is demanded by the Communist Party to build an aircraft, it gets done no matter how dumb the concept is in theory. This authoritarian approach to the ...

The Lockheed U-2 is a spy plane so exemplary at its job that the US Air Force is still hesitant to get rid of it, even almost 70 years after its first flight. The Dragon Lady, as people often call it, ...

At the North Pole last week it rained, and the three big Soviet planes beside the base camp sank slightly into the mushy surface of the ice floe. The fourth plane, which came down 40 miles away ...

In 1960, the Soviet Union shot down a high-altitude U.S. U-2 spy airplane and captured pilot Francis Gary Powers. Aviation Week parroted the U.S. government’s statement that the aircraft was down due ...

A natural fighter ace, Ivan Kozhedub’s tactics were characterized by precision, aggression, and calculated risk. Ivan Nikitovich Kozhedub, born on June 8, 1920 in the small Ukrainian village of ...