Japan’s Kaga Is a Carrier Again

Japan’s Kaga Is a Carrier Again

A grey warship longer than three football fields is steaming through the Pacific, and stealth fighters are dropping onto its deck. For most navies that would be unremarkable. For Japan, it is something close to historic — because for eighty years, Japan insisted it...
The First Man Saved by a Parachute

The First Man Saved by a Parachute

The sky over Dayton was the washed-out blue of a late October afternoon when Lieutenant Harold R. Harris felt his control stick begin to hammer in his hand. He was a mile and a half above the rooftops, throwing his stubby Loening monoplane through a mock dogfight,...