As a light fighter-bomber armed with 250- or 500-lb bombs, the Whirlwind was effective, proving itself in sweeps of the ...

Various land-based fighters were converted to become seaplanes during the Second World War. A few were very impressive, like ...

A DH-115 Vampire T.35, Gloster Meteor F.8, Cessna A-37B Dragonfly, Ryan STM-S2, English Electric Canberra, CA-27 Sabre, CT4A, ...

Tributes have poured in for "dedicated" firefighter William Betts who died aged 98 over the weekend (Image: Norfolk Fire & Rescue Service) Paying tribute, deputy chief fire officer, Scott Norman, said ...

Tropical Darwin is blessed with lovely beaches and year-round warm weather. But there’s one problem … crocodiles. Not to ...

Richard Roth Jr. was undoubtedly a people person. While he was proud of the work he did, he was also delighted by the ...

Roland "Bud" Wolfe's yen to fly hot airplanes for the British against Nazi Germany before the U.S. declared war landed him in an Irish jail - twice - making him the only American held in what was one ...

From the May 1980 issue of Car and Driver. In the beginning, sports cars were simple, full-speed-ahead-and-damn-the-practicalities two-seat machines with re­tractable tops. Their mission in life was ...

Every gift is doubled and sends two days of emergency heat to a home in need. Will you chip in? The Lions Club of Rutland commissioned a film in 1941 that showed scenes of daily life in the city and ...

No lighted candles beckoned from the windows on Boston’s stately Louisburg Square; the all-but-actual stage sets which lit up the facades of Hollywood homes last year were dark. Few firecrackers ...

Screen version of the best-selling book [by Walter Van Tilburg Clark] depends too much on the hanging theme, developing this into a brutal closeup of a Nevada necktie party. Hardly a gruesome detail ...