Combined, the world’s air forces operate in excess of 50,000 aircraft, with that number changing little year on year.

In this article, we'll find out which plane has the distinction of "biggest plane in the world" and how experts determine ...

The Wright brothers may have engineered the first plane, but that has nothing on history's largest aircraft. Here's how Kitty Hawk's finest hold up against an Airbus A380, Boeing 747, and the new ...

The world's largest aeroplane by wingspan has taken flight for the first time. Built by Stratolaunch, the company set up by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen in 2011, the aircraft is ...

The world's largest aircraft was unveiled in Silicon Valley yesterday, promising a new era in greener flight. The airship "floated silently" from its "WW2-era hangar" at Nasa’s Moffett Field ...