An Aspen filmmaker is taking to air, sea and land for a new documentary on a little-known piece of aviation history. Dirk Braun, best known locally for his commercial film work with his Red Mountain ...

The desk's aluminum legs are fabricated. The Grumman HU-16 Albatross was a large amphibious flying boat produced between 1949 and 1961 and was flown by the US Air Force, Navy and Coast Guard and other ...

Last week the Saugeen Municipal Airport was host to a special aircraft – the Grumman Albatross- an amphibious flying boat with a long and colourful history first as anti-submarine chaser and later in ...

Engineers have developed a new model to simulate dynamic soaring, and have used it to identify the optimal flight pattern that an albatross should take in order to harvest the most wind and energy.

NEW YORK — A wayward yellow-nosed albatross that apparently strayed from its marine habitat in the Southern Hemisphere has turned up in the New York metropolitan area, and has been spotted flying ...

Birds have inspired airplane designs since the dawn of aviation, but nature isn’t done giving up its secrets. Now researchers are taking cues from the wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans), an ...