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On January 30, 1942, the Army Air Corps awarded Northrop a contract to build two XP-61 prototypes. Rediscover the Northrop P-61 Black Widow aircraft in part two of the blog series.

A duck in a hot air balloon. A cat in an airship. A lion cub in an airplane. Stories of animals in flight.

A small group of enthusiasts keeps World War I airplanes aloft.

The development of Microsoft's desktop computer Flight Simulator.

MiG-17 performance in Veitnam

Digital scans of Charles Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis, which belongs to the National Air and Space Museum, were incorporated into the Microsoft Flight Simulator 40th anniversary edition.

Late in World War Two the German's developed the Heinkel He 162 Spatz, an early jet fighter part of the Volksjäger (People’s Fighter) project.

What's new in aviation and space.

During World War II, the U.S. Navy did not have a program that allowed African Americans to train and fly as naval aviators. Jesse Leroy Brown, however, fought through many hurdles to become the first African American to complete Navy flight training. Discover his story.

Frank01 and Frank02—The call signs used on the mission to shoot down a Chinese observation balloon, were a direct reference to the accomplished “balloon busting” career of Frank Luke Jr. Learn about the historical thread connecting a balloon over the United States to the skies above World War I Europe.