A: The Wright brothers, of course.
Although it’s the sort of thing that any American grade-school student should know, the answer to the question “Who invented the airplane?” hasn’t always (or everywhere) been so.
Had that same question been posed to a Soviet citizen, he (or she) would most likely have responded with a name you’ve probably [...]

By the early 1960s, Soviet citizens could boast that their country not only possessed the world’s largest transport plane, the Tupolev Tu-114, but that the state airline company Aeroflot also operated the world’s longest non-stop passenger run with its service between Havana, Cuba and Moscow.
What was it like to fly the Soviet skies at [...]