In 1925, Cole Palen was born outside the Town of Poughkeepsie and early on, developed an intense interest in aviation. Initially building free-flight model airplanes, Palen enrolled in the Roosevelt ...

As historians mark exactly a century since the end of World War I, a group of pilots take to the air in a museum’s vintage airplanes, bringing a bygone era back to life. Located just two hours north ...

The Golden Age of Aviation is popularly described as the years after World War I and up until World War II. It was the era when the popular biplane, with its wings of wood-frame and fabric, was ...

When Louis Charles Joseph Blériot crossed the English Channel on July 25, 1909, few could have imagined that more than a century later, one of his early monoplanes would still be flying. Now, 116 ...

At the corner of Stone Church and Norton Roads in a remote corner of Red Hook, the roar, buzzing and sometimes sputtering of 100-year-old airplanes preparing to take flight is a familiar sound on a ...

There are only two places in Nassau where Ken Casser can enjoy his hobby flying radio-controlled model airplanes and helicopters: fields in Wantagh and Port Washington. The Port Washington aerodrome ...

Thirty miles outside of Dayton, Ohio, is a tribute to aviation history. Russ Turner turned a 10-acre field into a replica of a WWI aerodrome. This year, 18 pilots flew their replica planes there. R.