From Looney Toons characters to shark teeth to pinup models, nose art on aircraft has a storied history in air forces around ...

Humans (well, at least some of us) have turned their gaze skyward and envied the birds since time immemorial. From the mythical attempts of Icarus to take to the skies to DaVinci’s fanciful designs, ...

1852: The first direct train from the East arrived in Chicago to the sound of a firing cannon and the sight of an immense ...

On Feb. 18, 1925, Clarence Piper was born in the Puyallup Valley. He was one of seven children of Francis "Frank" and Stella Piper, who lived on a small farm near Orting. A century later, on Tuesday, ...

Bryan Clark testifies before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

Lockheed Martin's F-35 Lightning II hit full-rate production last year. Today, over 150 fighter jets are being made annually.

The choice of a submarine's color might seem random, but it's far from that. There are several practical reasons to paint a ...

Bombers took on different roles during World War II, depending on size, but many were multi-role aircraft. True “heavies” ...

The Pentagon has stationed aircraft, ships, and troops in Japan, including the amphibious assault ship USS America. The ...

The 26-year-old U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sergeant, Eugene J. Darrigan — a World War II airman who was a resident of the ...

China and Russia increased their deployments of intelligence-gathering vessels and aircraft around Japan in early February, and this appears to be a co-ordinated ...