Aircraft

The world's first aircraft factory has been hiding inside an automobile plant for almost 80 years.

This small shrine is dedicated to the designer of the first Russian fighter jet and his brother, who became Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet.

The world's largest museum devoted solely to the whirlybird comes complete with its own chopper graveyard.

This WWII plane died a quiet death, and is now a garden eel playground.

Etched into a dry lake bed, this massive directional indicator is accurate without magnets.

A man in a plane delivers Christmas packages to lighthouses.

One of the oldest amusement rides in existence was a huge disappointment to its creator.

The world's largest private aircraft collection.

An abandoned aircraft sits submerged in a lake in the Alaska wilderness.

Mysterious wreckage of a small plane has been lodged in this tree since at least 1971.

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

A WWI fighter plane and turn-of-the-century penny candy shop are among the unexpected features of this Financial District building.

Enter the cabin of a life-sized Hindenburg replica.

A museum dedicated exclusively to aircraft used in the military.

A middle school sports field that many believe was the true location of the first successful powered flight - and not by the Wright Brothers.

This gold-winged spire celebrates the first true flight around the world.

The Canaima airstrip in Venezuela keeps an antique DC 3 plane in its camp.