Retirement used to mean pottering about in the garden or taking up gentle hobbies. But, today, many men in their twilight years prefer to embark on a challenge. Into that category comes a group of ...

In 1963, the Lockheed A-12 (code-named “Archangel”) became America’s first supersonic stealth plane. Incredibly fast, much ...

The Lockheed L-133 Starjet was a prime example of a paradoxical “successful failure.” As I asserted in a recent article for ...

Psychological warfare is a tool used by armed forces to discourage their enemy, and break their resolve for fighting. It's a tactic recorded as early as ancient Rome, where members of the Legion ...

World War II marked a significant push in military aircraft innovation, eschewing most of the biplanes from the previous war ...

They were quiet. Planes were a very new invention, they were rare and fragile. But when World War One started they became weapons. Pilots could spy on enemy targets and the first bombs were ...

The plane plunged to the runway below, killing Gerson and his mechanic, Bud King. They were both veterans of World War II who believed in Schwimmer's cause — and they were the first to die for it.