On a moonlit night over occupied Europe, a returning Vickers Wellington limped home after a successful raid when a German Messerschmitt Bf 110 struck from below, raking the bomber with cannon fire and ...

Christmas 1943, a badly shot up B-17 struggled to stay in the air, it was the first mission for the 21-year-old pilot, half his crew lay wounded. Then the dark shadow of the feared Bf-109 pulled along ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the late 1940s, a U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 Superfortress crashed into Lake Mead during a classified postwar operation known as ...

In the late 1940s, a U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 Superfortress crashed into Lake Mead during a classified postwar operation known as “Sun Tracker.” The mission was part of early Cold War research ...

Lake Ronkonkoma native William Thomas Cleary was flying a mission near Italy in 1944 during World War II when the Nazis shot down his B-17 bomber and it crashed into the Adriatic Sea. The 21-year-old ...

A team of students from the University of Arizona will spend the next month sifting through soil in a farm field in Poland in search of closure for several Gold Star families whose loved ones were ...

MOST VISITORS ENTER the Museum of Flight through the main building, on the east side of East Marginal Way South. A skybridge takes you over the busy road to the space gallery and the aviation pavilion ...