World War II pilot and longtime owner of L.P. Athol Corp., Vincent “Bill” J. Purple died in his Petersham home. He was 100.

The Bell P-59 Airacomet, America’s first jet fighter, debuted in 1942 but didn’t see combat due to its limited speed and ...

The average commercial drone can stay in the air for about half an hour on a single battery charge, this new drone from South Korean firm Hogreen Air, can fly for 14 hours straight! In a recent ...

As for Howland Island, it was attacked by the Japanese on December 8, 1941, the day after the famous attack on Pearl Harbor.

Search efforts were suspended in the summer of 1947, and in 1949 all three men were declared non-recoverable. Aviation ...

First Lt. Bruce H. Brown was a co-pilot aboard a B-17 flying fortress helping to lead bombing raids over German-occupied France during World War II.

Roth novel tells it all ...

The city bought an N3N biplane, like the ones flown by pilots in training at Barin Field during World War II. Back in January ...

Imperial Japan sent its first wave of kamikaze suicide planes to the U.S. Navy off the coast of the Philippines on Oct. 25, ...

P-51 Mustang pilots shot down a total of 4,950 enemy aircraft, while more than 250 of its pilots achieved ace status and had ...

"He was an ordinary guy," said Sooke's Jay Hammond, recalling the uncle he never met, Pilot Officer Wilbur Bentz (nicknamed ...

Veil and his good friend Treven Iverson of Jamestown flew supplies down on Oct. 4, initially to Mountain City, Tenn., and ...