Cessna is known for its single-engine piston aircraft, with the Cessna 172 being the most popular model produced for nearly 70 years. The Cessna Comet was the first aircraft built by Clyde Cessna ...

The position of the comet in space at any time depends on five quantities which are called the elements of the orbit. The plane of the comet orbit in space is defined by itsrelation with respect ...

A passing star may have kicked the weird moons of giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn into place, new research suggests.

Leonardo DiCaprio would be well within his rights to never get in a plane again after experiencing two dangerously close ...

The Comet 1A has been moved inside the new £3m hangar at the De Havilland Museum at Salisbury Hall The last surviving example of a plane with a window design that contributed to fatal crashes has ...

Tony Blackman, who has died aged 96, was an RAF fighter pilot who later joined Avro, where he tested over 100 of the ...

Wendy Lewis, now in her 70s and living in St Albans, was a secretary at the de Havilland Aircraft Co. in 1958. "I was present at the very first test flight of the newly-designed Comet Airliner by ...

There were two unusual aspects to comet Hyakutake's orbit around the Sun. First, the plane containing its motion was almost perpendicular to the plane that contains the Earth and other planets.

Round windows manage pressure better, distributing stress evenly for safer flights. Square windows on early planes were ...

Some 700 paratroopers took part in the jump, including the Red Devils, the British Army’s freefall parachute display team. The event commemorates the anniversary of the Battle of Arnhem, part of ...