The B-17 Flying Fortress was still a few years away from becoming an iconic workhorse of American air power in World War II when a flight of six planes took off from Langley Field on Feb. 16, 1938 for ...

Nearly 100 years after the first plane took off from Langley Field, it can be hard to see this busy stretch of land along Hampton’s Back River as anything other than one of the most important hubs of ...

The crash of the airship Roma killed 34 Langley Field airmen on Feb. 21, 1922. Departing from its immense hangar at 1:30 p.m., it crashed and caught on fire in Norfolk less than an hour later after ...

Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory was barely five years old when workmen began driving wooden pilings into the ground off Hampton’s rural Back River in late June 1925. So new and few were its ...

So new and few were Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory’s buildings in 1925, that — except for the growing strip of hangars, barracks and offices erected by the Army at neighboring Langley Field ...