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 ...

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 ...

A few minutes before 10 a.m. on Nov. 15, 1921, one of the most amazing aerial spectacles ever to take place in Hampton Roads rose into the skies over Langley Field. At 410 feet long, the Roma was a ...

__1931: __The world's first full-scale wind tunnel opens at Langley Field near Hampton, Virginia. With a test area 60 feet wide and 30 feet high, aerodynamic testing is performed on everything from ...