It is common knowledge that the field of aviation was pioneered in the US when Orville Wright achieved the first powered flight on 17...

In 1960 an old US coastguard told a curious reporter a tale he had heard some 14 years before on the Pacific island of Nikumaroro. Not...

Petrus Hendrik Hugo was a South African who joined the Royal Air Force and took part in the Battle of France and the Battle of Britain...

1. WORKING THROUGH THE AIR RAID In November 1940, three women of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) were awarded 50% of all the...