Aviation World, History & Legends
Share this story Twenty years before Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay set foot on the summit of Mount Everest, two men in open-cockpit biplanes looked down on it from above. On April 3, 1933, a small British expedition did something that sounds impossible for the...
History & Legends, Military Aviation
Share this story In the last winter of World War II, Allied airmen flying night missions over Europe began to see something they could not explain. Glowing balls of light, orange and red, would appear beside their aircraft and pace them through the dark, matching...
Aviation World, History & Legends
Share this story Twenty-one years ago today, on August 14, 2005, a Boeing 737 crossed the sky over Greece with everyone aboard already beyond saving. It flew straight and level, obedient to its autopilot, holding its assigned altitude and following its route as if...
History & Legends, Military Aviation
Share this story For forty years, aviation enthusiasts have chased a ghost. It has a name, a rumored shape, and a trail of strange evidence. What it does not have is a single confirmed photograph, a serial number, or an admission that it was ever built. The ghost is...
History & Legends, Military Aviation
Share this story In the darkest years of the Cold War, American engineers designed a weapon so appalling that many of the people building it were relieved when it was cancelled. It was a cruise missile with an unshielded nuclear reactor for an engine, and it was meant...
Aviation World, Military Aviation, News
Share this story When Air Force One lifted off from Ankara after the NATO summit on July 8, 2026, the whole world assumed it knew who was on board. The world was wrong. According to a Washington Post investigation revealed on August 10, President Trump publicly...
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