The Battle of Britain was a turning point for the allied forces during WWII. After their evacuation at Dunkirk, the British Army was in a poor state, having abandoned much of its warfighting equipment and machinery in France. The Home Guard, the arm…
On August 16, 2022, American Airlines announced an agreement to purchase 20 Boom Supersonic Overture commercial jets with an option for an additional 40. American, the world’s largest airline by…
Col. Joseph Duckworth was one of the Air Force’s most skilled pilots. Although a flyer during World War II, he never saw combat behind the stick of any aircraft. Despite…
Charles Augustus Lindbergh was born in Detroit, Michigan. The Lindberghs continued to live in Detroit until their house burned down in 1905, which led them to relocate to Little Falls….
During the Cold War, the U.S. faced the very real possibility they’d have to rush masses of troops to the front line but wasn’t sure where the front line would open up. While the more obvious places like the Fulda Gap or Checkpoint Charlie had tro…
In 1969, Honduras and El Salvador fought a brief but explosive war that lasted 100 hours. It is sometimes called “The Football War” because its outbreak coincided with a soccer…
A new military-led study unveiled Thursday shows there is a low risk for passengers traveling aboard large commercial air…
We have a history of showing off American military hardware, training, and photos. But we’re not always great about showing the great photographic work of our rivals. (Our “enemies” if you’re feeling aggressive or if you need to make your headli…
Natapixie asks: Has a non-pilot passenger ever managed to land an airplane?
A common Hollywood trope when dealing with commercial airline-centric plots is inevitably at some point the pilot or pilots will become incapacitated and the lead char…
Look, we all hope that Space Rangers will be elite, Buzz Lightyear-types but with tattoos and lethal weapons instead of stickers and blinking lights. But if they’re going to be Buzzes, they have to learn to fall with style. And in the U.S. military…