“In the post-World War II field of electronic circuitry, black box became the ubiquitous term for a self-contained electronic device whose input and output were ... plane crash. They're orange ...

The cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder are tools that help investigators reconstruct the events that lead up to a plane crash. They’re orange in color to make them easier to ...

Germany is known for its engineering expertise, and this resulted in some of the most impressive fighter planes in history.

According to the Allies, one of the most critical aspects of winning World War II was establishing air superiority over ...

Harry Stewart Jr. would survive World War II as one of only four Tuskegee Airmen with three air-to-air victories in a single ...

“Recording Evil,” a landmark documentary project exposing the largest spy operation in World War II, has started filming ... Nazi prisoner recordings were made and stored.

He is a first rate combat pilot and the reckless bravery of his attacks … are something you can well be proud of.” When one thinks of America’s World War II air aces—those who have destroyed five or ...

The Vital de Oliveira was a civilian ship, built in 1910 and outfitted as an auxiliary naval craft when Brazil entered World War II on the side of the Allies. It was transporting supplies ...

Which WWII fighter aircraft had the most kills ... and bravery that defined aerial combat during World War II. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination passes crucial vote despite Democrats' 'grave ...

In this episode, we are going to examine just a handful of peculiar Allied prototype planes that bucked the trend of warplane design in the early 1940s and while we may not remember them in the ...

When people heard the siren they would stop what they were doing and make for a shelter. These might be Anderson shelters constructed from corrugated iron which were built in gardens, or Morrison ...