Philip Makanna For the cover of the premier issue of Air & Space/Smithsonian magazine, published in April 1986, we chose a biplane, a configuration that aircraft designers had all but abandoned by ...

They’re off! The start of the 2017 Biplane Class championship race was the last time Jake Stewart’s clipped-wing Pitts Bad Mojo (number 10) would be so close to the Mong Sport Phantom ...

During World War One, von Richthofen, also known as the Red Baron, won 80 air combat victories, and he did so while flying biplanes. But why exactly were these two-winged planes (and in the Red ...

A new volume has now been produced under the comprehensive title of “The Flutter of Monoplanes, Biplanes, and Tail Units” (Air Ministry: Aeronautical Research Committee. Reports and Memoranda ...

The squadron of biplanes, cleverly dubbed the Red Wekas, weigh 30kg and are wheeled along, a bit like a wheelbarrow, while the "pilot" stands inside them. They'll be making an appearance at ...