Hiking seven miles to one of the tallest peaks in the Adirondacks -- in the rain -- is not most people's idea of fun, but when searching for one of the many airplane wrecks hidden among the upstate ...
NEWARK, DELAWARE—Last March, a team of researchers and volunteers found two planes that had crashed into the Pacific Ocean near the Republic of Palau during the fierce fighting of World War II. Eric ...
On March 18, 1945 at 2:15 p.m., an XF8F-1 Bearcat sped down the runway and climbed into the sky above Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland. At that moment in time, no one could have imagined the ...
Unless they're named Indiana and wear a fedora, archaeologists typically don't attempt to solve historical mysteries in a single summer. But that's exactly what University of New Orleans archaeologist ...
An expedition has successfully discovered wreckage from the USS Lexington, an early aircraft carrier that was sunk off the coast of Australia during World War II. The expedition was led using the R/V ...
The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery is a nonprofit organization located in Pennsylvania. Founded by Richard Gillespie in 1985, TIGHAR describes themselves as "a non-profit ...
Apart from changing the global political landscape and churning out tech that is relevant till date, World War II played a crucial role in taking aviation to new heights. The aviation industry in the ...
They include a crashed US B-17 Flying Fortress on Skye and locations on Shetland and in Dumfries and Galloway. Terence Christian, of the University of Glasgow, and volunteers excavated the wreck of a ...
The loss of the HMAS Sydney (II), pride of the Australian navy, has long been a source of pain and bewilderment. In waters off Western Australia in late 1941, following a successful tour in the ...